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March 13, 2017 03:48 PM UTC
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Republicans should stick with Obama Care. It is working just fine.
You're right. With just a few tweaks, it will work even better and if only the Republicans would have gone down that road, they could have avoided all the hypocrisy the CBO report revealed today.
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" . . . hypocrisy . . . "
. . . if you're a Republican it's what you do !!
And now we have confirmation from the White House that the CBO's report may have been not quite on the mark since the White House's report states that 2 million more people will be uninsured than the CBO report. When confronted last night with his report, Mr. Trump had his communications director describe the White House report as merely his projections of what the CBO report was likely to conclude. According to the com director, the White House never did an analysis of the healthcare bill in the House. The White House was only projecting what they believed the CBO would conclude.
Of course, the White House's statement is nonsense. They had to analyze the House bill to be able to project what the CBO would conclude. This adds up to two things. First, and most importantly, Mr. Trump and his White House staff are lying to us. Second, and specifically on the health insurance issues, Mr. Trump and the Republicans are willing to engage in a form of mental gymnastics to justify leaving millions and in a few years, tens of millions of Americans without any health insurance all in the name of freedom.
The Republicans have known all along exactly what their bill will do to create massive suffering by their constituents.
On a local note, its time Mr. Gardner and Mr. Coffman show some courage and face their constituents at live, in-person town hall meetings. Healthcare is way too important and vital in our everyday lives to be left to back door getaways and conference calls. Its time you stop being cowards.
And all the gnashing of teeth by Mr. Trump and the Republicans in the House and Senate over the accuracy of the CBO report is also nonsense. Their basis for attacking the CBO report is their assertion the CBO did not accurately estimate the number of people who would enroll in Obamacare. They say the CBO was wrong by a factor of 50%
As usual, Mr. Trump and the congressional Republicans forgot to mention one very important and decisive fact. When the CBO was asked to, among other things, estimate how many people would enroll in Obamacare, the legislation, as written at that moment, included a mandate that all states accept the Medicaid expansion. The CBO proceeded to analyze the bill based on that mandate. As we all know, the Affordable Care Act was amended to allow each state to chose whether or not it would accept the Medicaid expansion. Nineteen states did not accept it. If the state Medicaid mandate had remained in the legislation, the CBO's estimate of the number of enrollees was on target.
Did someone just fart?…
It's just some fruit that got left out too long.
…more 'fruitsplainin'
Well now, we've heard some typically sarcastic, diversionary horse crap from the always deplorable Puerile Pomegranate, so where then are the usual fetid roach droppings from jackasses Ann-Dru CarnHolio and Muddy Anus?
I can do Muddy Anus:
But they will have access to health care.
Why should I have to pay for their health care if they are too lazy to work?
Or want to buy an I-Phone instead.
Repeal and replace!
Benghazi!
LOCK HER UP!
Error 404
From that camera angle, it looks like Cory Gardner is trying to hide. Which might not be a bad idea.
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." Politifact Lie of the Year, 2013. The truth was about 4 million people (out of 262 million insured at the time) received cancellation notices. They did not necessarily lose health insurance, but that 4 million (less than 2% of insured) had to get different coverage.
"We're going to have insurance for everybody." "Much less expensive and much better." Trump, January 2017. Is that the lie of the Century? From 28 million uninsured to 52 million uninsured. Not just having to switch, but completely losing coverage. For many, a death sentence.
Let's not forget the fact that of those 4 million, many received "cancellation notices" (with quotes, as Sean Spicer would emphasize). Their exact plans were cancelled – mostly because insurance companies replace plans all the time rather than because of a failed promise – but they were able to buy new plans from the same companies, or shop around with real understanding of what they were buying on this new Exchange thing…
No wonder the wingers wanted to ramrod this steaming turd of a bill through Congress before the CBO issued its report..
I like the headline, Pols…especially since our 45th Tweeterdumb has his "counselor" telling folks not to call it Trumpcare!
(He doesn't want his brand attached to that stinker)
Trumpcare = DonTCare, CareLess,
But Pols – the link to the Associated Press goes, instead to a Doug Bruce story in the Gazette. So you may want to fix that link.
This is one of those moments when reality intrudes on the zenith of Republican power. How are you going to go back home when you have to face people who got their insurance cancelled? Will be interesting to see if Gardner goes along with the crowd. What's that saying about giving them enough rope. Too bad they are going to invoke Christian suffering on everyone else.
Popcorn, anyone?
A Bright Bart exclusive...(no specific mention of our junior senator in Brietbart's list of those who have 'concerns')
A problem here is that Senators Paul, Cotton, and maybe Lee, think the RyanCare proposal doesn't go far enough in getting people off the rolls.
But tilting the bill to cover less would only lose more GOP senators closer to the middle. Tilting the bill to just save Medicaid would likely just maintain a plurality of GOP senators, but not induce any Democrats to join. 24 million without health insurance are a lot of voters to write off for either party.
Oh and by not cutting $880 billion in Medicaid spending, the $335 billion reduction in the deficit goes away and exposes the $600 billion tax cut for the wealthy as the rip-off that it truly would be.
They are being flanked by both the right and left. Nowhere to hide….