Atlanta mayoral race: John Eaves says Trump’s plan to assassinate Obamacare could ‘kill Grady’

Fulton Chairman John Eaves says the GOP’s plan to vanquish the Affordable Care Act could “kill Grady,” Georgia’s largest hospital.

If President Donald Trump’s and his sycophants’ “heartless plan” comes to fruition, Eaves says, the hospital could lose more than $65 million in federal funds each year. In effect, the facility’s operating budget could be chopped by 10 percent, meaning Grady would have to cut back on critical services

So Eaves, a candidate for Atlanta mayor, wiped the sweat from his brow when U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, cast a vote early this morning to fell the “skinny repeal” proposal, a skeleton of conservative lawmakers’ initial plan to ditch and replace the ACA, aka Obamacare.

“If the GOP members in the House and Senate would have had their way, President Trump would have ended up signing a bill that would have thrown almost 1 million Georgians, (including residents of Fulton County) off health insurance,” says Eaves in a statement.

And more uninsured patients, he says, could clog up the Downtown emergency room and “overwhelm Grady’s capacity and put the hospital’s financial stability at significant risk.”

Eaves encourages his constituents to dial up Republican U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson and David Perdue to voice disapproval of their party’s plan to kill Obamacare. “We ask that they look at ways they can repair the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it ... because individuals who are part of their constituency are part of Fulton County, and many of them utilize Grady Hospital,” Eaves tells a flank of reporters gathered in front of the hospital.

Trump seemed dumbfounded that McCain, who had just returned to the Senate after undergoing surgery and learning he has brain cancer, voted against the party grain. The president, of course, tweeted his chagrin and reiterated his yearning to see Obamacare killed sans a substitute.