Mike Ryder: Is Trumpcare a form of ‘eugenics’? – Boulder Daily Camera

Policies that are designed to force certain "improvements" in the population are called "eugenics" and are generally considered a bad thing, especially since the extremes of Nazi Germany.

Fast forward to present-day United States, where Republicans in the House of Representatives voted for health-care reform last week that would kick an estimated 24 million Americans off their plans and let insurance companies deny coverage for such pre-existing conditions as pregnancy (sucks to be you, moms) and post-traumatic stress disorder (thank you for your service, veterans, now get lost). This gutting of Obamacare and common decency, if passed into law, will hit the poor and middle class while the rich get you guessed it another tax cut.

Who won't be affected? (Besides members of Congress, who always exempt themselves from losing their Cadillac coverage because, well, they can.) Wealthy white men won't be affected, the kind who acquire young trophy wives so they can favor future generations with their superior bloodlines.

So how is the Republican plan not eugenics?

Mike Ryder

Louisville

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