On break, Congress goes face-to-face with constituents on healthcare reform

On break, Congress goes face-to-face with constituents on healthcare reform: Distinctly Catholic: The Catholic Church not only teaches that health care is a basic human right but that it is essential to human dignity. Republicans seem content to hide behind the fiction of formal "access."

MGB: The GOP did not empower any consumers.  Instead, it empowered states.   ALEC states will be empowered to cut benefits to the sick and the poor, including seniors, because Medicaid covers every poor senior in and out of nursing homes.  Blue states will increase taxes and retain current coverage levels.  Sadly, even these changes will likely no turn red states blue, because there is always someone ready to demagogue undocumented immigrants, abortion, Planned Parenthood and gays to shift attention away from economic issues,  They think that littering the AHCA with Stupak amendments will get the Church and faithful to ignore the tax cuts benefiting the wealthy which are the real reason to make all of the cuts in the bill, including giving the states more leeway.  If they don't admit these are spending cuts they are lying, because they need them to be cuts to balance out the tax changes. As for single-payer, it will happen when insurance companies fail, not because people suffer.