Outrage Of The Month: House Passage Of Trumpcare

On May 4, in what would more appropriately be called the Outrage of the Decade, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives — spurred on by President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price — passed the morally bankrupt legislation known as the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA). This bill, which narrowly passed by a vote of 217 to 213, would have devastating — and, in some cases, fatal — consequences for millions of vulnerable Americans who would be thrown off the health insurance rolls, while at the same time rewarding corporations and the rich with huge tax cuts.