GOP weighs health care moves to pay for Iran war
Source: msn/Axios
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Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement.
Why it matters: New efforts to rein in health programs are sure to be controversial and open the GOP up to election-year attacks that they're cutting health care to pay for an unpopular war.
Driving the news: Top House Republicans are looking at health care offsets addressing fraud in federal programs, as they did during last year's debate over the budget law that made deep cuts to federal Medicaid spending and imposed first-time work requirements.
."There's other items we're looking at right now, especially in the areas of fraud and waste and abuse that we're working through with our members," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) told Axios
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) is reviving an idea that was considered last year to fund Affordable Care Act payments known as cost-sharing reductions.
The Congressional Budget Office previously found the move would lower overall benchmark ACA premiums by 11% but result in 300,000 more uninsured people. It would have the effect of cutting the subsidy amount that some enrollees receive, thereby increasing out-of-pocket premium costs, while saving the government over $30 billion.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/gop-weighs-health-care-moves-to-pay-for-iran-war/ar-AA1ZIcxv
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MAGA efficiency is deadly 
Humans are necessary. The rich have tried for centuries to remove humans from their equation because humans expect to be compensated for their efforts. The rich cannot part with one cent of their wealth to help people (but they can easily part with loads of it for that twelfth mansion or that newest addition to the fleet of yachts), so they think that we can be replaced. And they are so sure of it that they are willing to allow as many of us to die due to greed and avarice as possible so that they don't have to part with one cent of that hoard that they possess.
The fact that they have managed to convince a portion of the population that this is a good idea is why I despair so much. Some of us are too fucking gullible.
TOO fucking gullible. 
The irony of ironies is that they refuse to accept that we put them there.
They would not exist without the rest of us.
That is some sadistic shit right there.... 
that the fix is in for the midterm elections. They must know TrumpCo. has everything in place to keep entire control of our government, or why risk doing stupid shit like this in an election year? 
