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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Mon May 8, 2017, 10:14 AM May 2017

A weekend of frantic spin: Republicans ramp up the blatant lying after their Trumpcare victory

A weekend of frantic spin: Republicans ramp up the blatant lying after their Trumpcare victory
Republican strategy on the dreadful new health care bill: Keep telling outrageous lies and hope nobody notices
Heather Digby Parton Monday, May 8, 2017 11:10 AM CST

If the reaction by Republican leaders on the Sunday morning talk shows is any indication, the official plan is simply to lie about what’s in the bill and hope nobody finds out.

The House failed to allow the Congressional Budget Office to score the Trumpcare bill before it voted, but Speaker Ryan insisted on ABC’s “This Week” that any mention of that fact was “a bogus attack from the left,” since the CBO had scored the bill that failed last month and that only “three pages” of changes were made. Needless to say, those three pages contained all the pernicious additions the right-wingers of the House Freedom Caucus demanded and got in order to pass the bill.

Ryan went further and claimed that “under this bill, no matter what, you cannot be denied coverage if you have a pre-existing condition.” He forgot to mention that it could cost as much as taxpayers lay out weekly to send Trump to make personal appearances at his for-profit golf resorts. (I’m only slightly exaggerating. The costs for people with pre-existing conditions in certain situations will skyrocket. It’s admittedly unlikely to match the millions Trump has already charged the taxpayers to fund his weekend promotional trips on behalf of the Trump Organization.)

In reality, the costs and consequences for people with pre-existing conditions will be much greater than described in the original CBO report. Destroying that guarantee was one of the Freedom Caucus’s fundamental demands, and they got it. The $8 billion Band-aid called the Upton Amendment will do little to pay for what most experts believe is at least a $200 billion expense.

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/08/a-weekend-of-frantic-spin-republicans-ramp-up-the-blatant-lying-after-their-trumpcare-victory/
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A weekend of frantic spin: Republicans ramp up the blatant lying after their Trumpcare victory (Original Post) workinclasszero May 2017 OP
A precursor of more blatant lies to come dalton99a May 2017 #1
You can read the bill ...anyone with a brain or who is worried about it won't be fooled... Demsrule86 May 2017 #2
I hope and pray that you are right workinclasszero May 2017 #3

Demsrule86

(68,347 posts)
2. You can read the bill ...anyone with a brain or who is worried about it won't be fooled...
Mon May 8, 2017, 11:13 AM
May 2017

The GOP has doo doo on their shoes and this bill tattooed on their foreheads as Nancy Pelosi said...they will lose the house no matter what the Senate does.

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