Why Senators Will Vote to Screw Their Own States

Why vote for Trumpcare and deny constituents health care?

Don't worry, people will still have access to health care via the emergency room, and then they will most likely be unable to pay the medical bills that would have been covered (except for deductibles, co-pays, and exclusions to coverage on top of premiums) by the insurance they could no longer afford or that they couldn't get because of pre-existing conditions.

And when those bills are sent to collection agencies, those agencies will take them to civil court. If they fail to show up, or if the judge deems that they are “willfully” not paying the debt, the judge may write a warrant for their arrest. Then they could end up being charged criminally for "failing to appear in court," "disobeying a court order," or for "contempt of court."

Then after they are arrested and are unable to pay the bail or the non-refundable 10% to the bail bond agency, they will sit in jail (losing any employment they may have had) while waiting for their day in court to find out how much longer they will have to stay in jail. They will then be taught the new world of "offender-funded" justice and will be billed for such things as jail book-in fees, bail investigation fees, public defender application fees, court costs and the costs of their imprisonment and any probation they may get. And if they fail to pay any of that debt, the court will outsource the debt to a private collection agency, and the process of being taken to court for unpaid debts will begin all over again.

And if the jurisdiction that they are in considers "contempt of court" a felony, they will lose the right to vote. Then they will not be able to vote against the Republican senator whose district they are in. And so Republican senators can vote to damage their own state because the constituents they have screwed can't vote.


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