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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.
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Note Pences careful use of the phrase relative to current amounts. What he didnt 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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Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Kasich spokesman Jon Keeling said in an interview that Pences suggestion that 60,000 disabled Ohioans remain on waiting lists is not accurate, adding that to suggest Medicaid expansion hurt the states 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 USAs 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 Medicaids home and community-based services, and have not been affected by the programs expansion under the ACA. States have long had waiting lists for these services, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundations 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.
MyOwnPeace
(16,887 posts)"Thou shalt not lie" - I guess it's not covered in his version of "holy."
still_one
(91,944 posts)StatGirl
(518 posts)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.