Republicans claim American cannot afford healthcare for all its citizens. How peculiar! America claims to be the richest country on earth, but they cannot afford this? Every other developed nation manages to afford it. Further other countries spend about half the money that Americans do. Further, even for the gold-plated prices Americans pay, they rank #42, on par with impoverished Cuba. So what are the Republicans really up to:

• Helping the health industry make more money for doing less work to pay back the industry that bribes them both legally and illegally.
• Pissing on the poor.
• Refusing to save money on military spending or fund government programs by taxing corporations as billionaires. Most big corporations pay negative taxes. The beneficiaries of the status quo bribe the Republicans both legally and illegally to keep thing the way they are.

~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)