Former President Barack Obama took to Facebook on Thursday to lash out at a newly unveiled Senate GOP health care plan.

Calling on his supporters to do what they can to halt passage of the bill, Obama criticized Republicans for allegedly rushing the measure with little thought to the consequences merely to score political points. This is the exact thing for which Republicans criticized Obama when the massive redesign of the nation’s entire health system known as Obamacare was pushed through in 2009.

“I recognize that repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act has become a core tenet of the Republican Party. Still, I hope that our Senators, many of whom I know well, step back and measure what’s really at stake,” he wrote.

“[T]he rationale for action … must be something more than simply undoing something that Democrats did,” wrote Obama. “I still hope that there are enough Republicans in Congress who remember that public service is not about sport or notching a political win.”

When it came to describing “what’s really at stake,” Obama resorted to the same sensationalist anti-Republican rhetoric that has helped foment a toxic political environment.

“The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health care bill. It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to the richest people in America. It hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else,” Obama wrote.

“Those with private insurance will experience higher premiums and higher deductibles, with lower tax credits to help working families cover the costs, even as their plans might no longer cover pregnancy, mental health care, or expensive prescriptions,” he claimed.

“Discrimination based on pre-existing conditions could become the norm again. Millions of families will lose coverage entirely,” he warned ominously.

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“Simply put, if there’s a chance you might get sick, get old, or start a family — this bill will do you harm,” he wrote. “What impossible choices will working parents be forced to make if their child’s cancer treatment costs them more than their life savings?”

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In closing, Obama — in the name of reminding Republicans “that public service is not about sport or notching a political win” — called on his over 54 million Facebooks fans to do whatever they can to sink the Senate GOP’s bill.

“I believe that it’s possible — if you are willing to make a difference again. If you’re willing to call your members of Congress. If you are willing to visit their offices. If you are willing to speak out, let them and the country know, in very real terms, what this means for you and your family,” he wrote.