If you've listened at all to congressional Republicans recently, you've no doubt heard them talk about one of their top priorities: gut the Affordable Care Act, and take away access to coverage for tens of millions of Americans.
The timing of his absurd push could be better.
Nearly 59 million Americans went without health insurance coverage for at least part of 2010, many of them with conditions or diseases that needed treatment, federal health officials said on Tuesday.
They said 4 million more Americans went without insurance in the first part of 2010 than during the same time in 2008.
"Both adults and kids lost private coverage over the past decade," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a news briefing.
It's against this backdrop that the entirety of the Republican Party wants to destroy the reform laws and go back to the broken system that produced these tragic results.
Not that this is going to happen, they will never get the votes, but when the Republicans look at the sad state of the country, the first thing they think is that we need to cut health care?
Americans are hurting. The GOP wants to make them hurt even more.
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