bye bye ACA.

Rand Paul and his father are cancers on the body politic.

The question is whether this amendment would be favored by 50 or more Senators. It also would not necessarily destroy ACA. To PASS ACA we needed it because it was needed to make the numbers work in terms of affordable premiums without increasing the deficit. There is no requirement that that remain the case.

The BIGGEST problem is that many "young invincibles", who as a group, have low medical costs relative to the whole population, might opt to "self insure". However, very few are really in the position where they could do that. Some of those people will become ill and some will have accidents. The entire point of insurance is that you pay for insurance to get coverage if you are in that unlucky group. There are two major impacts to that - 1) The average premium for those remaining will increase as the average expected costs will rise for the remaining sicker or older population. 2) There will be tragic situations of the unlucky now healthy people who opt out of insurance, who then need it. We will be back into the days where hospitals treat many very ill or injured people without insurance. Does the federal government need to create a larger fund for these unpaid hospital costs?

hasn't been paying attention.

The people of Kentucky can't afford healthcare unless you keep the ACA.
But what the hell, you've got the greatest healthcare for free. Don't you Paul?

Even after you're voted out of office, you'll still get better healthcare than any of your constituents.
Won't you?

Why was he only arrested on a class 4 misdemeanor?
Why does Paul claim he doesn't know why?
Landscaping, really? No one in Kentucky believes it. I wish a investigational reporter would get curious because their maybe a back story here that puts Paul back in a box he can't get out of.

was still in the hospital.

Personally, I think he needs much more rest.

My ribs are bruised and sore from a fall. They were not broken, but badly bruised. I had a mild concussion. My head healed before my ribs.

The whole thing make me tired. i don't see how he can function.

That sounds uncomfortable as hell! Hope you start feeling better soon.

As for Rand Paul, his doctor should have done all of us a favor and prescribed an extended period of bed rest.

I googled - had trouble finding names -- time to call up senators to pressure them to vote NO !!!