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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA 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 victoryRepublican 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 whats 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 ABCs 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. (Im only slightly exaggerating. The costs for people with pre-existing conditions in certain situations will skyrocket. Its 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 Caucuss 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
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You can read the bill ...anyone with a brain or who is worried about it won't be fooled...
Demsrule86
May 2017
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dalton99a
(81,065 posts)1. A precursor of more blatant lies to come
Demsrule86
(68,347 posts)2. You can read the bill ...anyone with a brain or who is worried about it won't be fooled...
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.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)3. I hope and pray that you are right