Over in Yankee Land Donald and his mates are still smiling smugly to themselves, Republicans managing to push their new health care bill through the House in a hastily thrown together vote.

Why take your time, it’s not like it’s something that is going to affect hundreds of millions of Americans for generations to come?

217-213 was the margin, so it really was squeaky bum time for Trump,

Sunday saw John Oliver in fine form again, and he took a swipe at the GOP Health Care Bill:

Yeah, screw your pre-existing conditions.

Side note – guess what qualifies as a pre-existing condition, allowing insurers to raise the roof on those rates? TIME with this below:

• AIDS/HIV
• Alcohol or drug abuse with recent treatment
• Alzheimer’s/dementia
• Anorexia
• Arthritis
• Bulimia
• Cancer
• Cerebral palsy
• Congestive heart failure
• Coronary artery/heart disease, bypass surgery
• Crohn’s disease
• Diabetes
• Epilepsy
• Hemophilia
• Hepatitis
• Kidney disease, renal failure
• Lupus
• Mental disorders (including Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Schizophrenia)
• Multiple sclerosis
• Muscular dystrophy
• Obesity
• Organ transplant
• Paraplegia
• Paralysis
• Parkinson’s disease
• Pending surgery or hospitalization
• Pneumocystic pneumonia
• Pregnancy or expectant parent (includes men)
• Sleep apnea
• Stroke
• Transsexualism

Sorry folks, you’re on your own.

That’s not all. Experts have also noted that insurers can drastically hike premiums on conditions like C-Sections, hysterectomies, postpartum depression and “sexual deviation or disorder”.

TIME again:

A recent report from the Center [sic] for American Progress found that insurers could charge people with metastatic cancer as much as $142,650 more for their coverage, a 3,500% increase.

That’s where that cookie analogy in the video comes from, and you can bet health insurers will squeeze every last drop out of their clients.

Pregnant? Cancer? AIDS? F*ck you, it doesn’t matter to these guys – this picture from Trump’s post-Bill passing celebratory speech:

[sources:dailybeast&time]