Agreed! Let's end profiting off of people's illnesses. Let's stop financially penalizing our sick, poor and elderly. Let's cut out the middleman insurance companies who only serve to drive up healthcare costs. I truly don't understand how the republican party can boast as being a pillar of the Christian faith and then cut social programs that care for the most vulnerable. How does someone reconcile that political dogma with the teachings of Jesus - a man who preached more about taking care of the "least of these" and that we should invest ourselves into the lives of others, not hoard our resources to ourselves (Matthew 25:34-40; Luke 6:30-38; 10:25-37; 12:15-21). To me, the republican party has and continues to do the exact opposite of these teachings.