Mike Coffman's "Listening Tour" Horse Has Left The Barn

6 thoughts on “Mike Coffman’s “Listening Tour” Horse Has Left The Barn”

1. I'll ask again: WTF is wrong with Coffman? He sounds like he's drugged up.

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2. Coffman's sugar daddy, which paid for this ad,  the "American Action Network" ,is a 501C3 "grassroots activism" group led by Norm Coleman, whom Al Franken narrowly defeated for Senate in 2009. In 2016, AAN  raised 5.5 million, which it has spent defeating Democratic candidates for office. Although AAN claims to be non-partisan, it is clearly a Republican PAC and lobbying outfit.

   In 2011, the only year for which we have tax returns, they raised 22 million, and spent almost all of it defeating Democratic candidates and running issue ads (like Coffman's).

   Don't bother looking for details on the GOP health care plan on the American Action Network …just more of the same vague BS, assuming that Americans are all sheep who will buy the "brand" of the unknown GOP health plan without ever looking at the ingredients.

   Coffman has made empty promises his specialty – this is more of the same.

    

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3. Why do Republicans always act out of sour grapes, as Coleman is doing , that propose to injure the very people they sought to serve?

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4. He's a damned lying fool that CO Dems cannot beat !!!!!!

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5. On the plus side, Coffman claims he won't vote to repeal without having a plan to put in its place. He needs to hear loud and clear that the plan can't just be on a set of bullet points, but must actually be passed by the House AND Senate.

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   1. Replacement, if it happens will be something like this:

      Trump has probably been the most outspoken on this point, promising to deliver “great health care at lower cost” and vowing that “everybody would be covered.” But other Republicans reject the whole concept of health care as a right. Although it’s theoretically possible to draw up a conservative health plan that would improve access and affordability, these aren’t the kinds of plans that Republicans have in mind. 

      Their schemes envision substantially less government spending on health care, which would mean lower taxes for the wealthy but also less financial assistance for everybody else. Republicans would make insurance cheaper, but only by allowing it to cover fewer services and saddling beneficiaries with even higher out-of-pocket costs. The result would be some mix of more exposure to medical bills and more people without coverage. If Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act without replacing it ― a real possibility, given profound divisions within the GOP over how to craft a plan ― 32 million more people could go uninsured, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

      That would mean real suffering, primarily among those Americans who benefit most from the law now ― the ones with serious medical problems, or too little income to pay for insurance on their own, or both.

      Less coverage, higher premiums, bigger deductibles, and bigger government deficits due to rollback on taxes impacting the wealthy are what we have in store if you are younger than 65 and don't have employer-based insurance.

      Even seniors and employees with insurance will be affected by higher costs and lower benefits since the effects will be industry-wide (and a change to a voucher and block grant strategy for Medicare and Medicaid).  

      Republicans are good at breaking things, not so much with constructive changes.

      But keep on buying those multibillion dollar weapons systems to keep the GOP donor class happy.

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