The poor would be crushed by GOP health plan, but they’re not alone
“One of the core cruelties to the Republican health care plan is the burdens it would impose on low-income families. As many have noted many times in recent days, at the heart of the GOP legislation is the belief that the poor should pay more for worse coverage in order to finance tax breaks that would disproportionately benefit the wealthy. For those concerned with economic and social justice, such circumstances are obviously obscene. It’s also true, however, that few groups in America have less political capital than the poor. For health care advocates, trying to find the most compelling arguments to sway Republican lawmakers, pointing to the impact on the low-income communities may not do the trick. Many on the right, after all, agree with Ben Carson’s recent assessment that poverty is really just ‘a state of mind.’”