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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Sat Jul 15, 2017, 07:46 PM Jul 2017

Republican governor fact-checks Pences lie aboutMedicaid

During a speech before the National Governors Association on Friday, Vice President Mike Pence blatantly mischaracterized the impact Trumpcare would have on Medicaid.

“Let me be clear: President Trump and I believe the Senate health care bill strengthens and secures Medicaid for the neediest in our society,” Pence said. “And this bill puts this vital American program on a path to long-term sustainability. Under the Senate health care bill, federal Medicaid spending will be $300 to $500 billion dollars higher over the next decade relative to current amounts.”




Note Pence’s careful use of the phrase “relative to current amounts.” What he didn’t tell listeners is that Trumpcare represents a devastating cut to Medicaid funding relative to current law. As a result, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently concluded that if Trumpcare becomes law, 15 million Americans will lose Medicaid coverage over the next decade.

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https://thinkprogress.org/republican-governor-fact-checks-pences-lie-about-medicaid-fb7c0783a095
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Republican governor fact-checks Pences lie aboutMedicaid (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2017 OP
Talking about Kasich: Ilsa Jul 2017 #1
Pence: MyOwnPeace Jul 2017 #2
A big problem is that the media generally won't call him out on this falsehood still_one Jul 2017 #3
"The neediest in our society" is the loophole StatGirl Jul 2017 #4
KNR Thank you! Lucinda Jul 2017 #5

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
1. Talking about Kasich:
Sat Jul 15, 2017, 07:51 PM
Jul 2017

Kasich spokesman Jon Keeling said in an interview that Pence’s suggestion that 60,000 disabled Ohioans remain on waiting lists “is not accurate,” adding that to suggest Medicaid expansion hurt the state’s developmentally disabled “system is false, as it is just the opposite of what actually happened.”

“That waiting list is nothing new, and to attribute it to expansion is absurd,” said Families USA’s senior director of health policy, Eliot Fishman.
The Post further expanded on the reality of the situation in Ohio:
The waiting lists Pence referred to apply to Medicaid’s home and community-based services, and have not been affected by the program’s expansion under the ACA. States have long had waiting lists for these services, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s executive vice president, Diane Rowland, noted that waiting lists in non-expansion states are often longer than in expansion states, which currently receive a 95 percent federal match for their newly covered beneficiaries.

StatGirl

(518 posts)
4. "The neediest in our society" is the loophole
Sat Jul 15, 2017, 08:33 PM
Jul 2017

This is equivalent to Reagan's "truly needy".

It means "Most people who are getting government aid are a bunch of free-loaders," and the devoted base assumes that he's referring to other people, not them.

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