Ossoff, Handel Get Into Highly Charged Debate Over Health Care
Source: TPM
Last night was Ossoff v Handel first debate ahead of the runoff, the two candidates butted heads in a charged exchange about the effort to repeal Obamacare underway in Congress.
Republican Karen Handel defended the House GOPs American Health Care Act in Tuesday nights debate, hosted by Atlanta TV station WSB, arguing that the current system under Obamacare is collapsing. She dismissed an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office projecting that 23 million Americans would end up losing their health insurance under the House bill.
I reject the premise of the CBO, she said, adding that the CBO was wrong about Obamacares impacts.
Democrat Jon Ossoff criticized Handel for backing a bill that would gut the protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions. He also brought up his opponents role in the Susan G. Komen Foundations decision to cut off its funding for Planned Parenthood.
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Handel also stressed that she did not singularly decide that the Komen foundation would stop funding Planned Parenthood.
I will not be lectured by you or anyone else, she told Ossoff.
In response, Ossoff charged that Handel campaigned in 2012 on her role in cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood and noted that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has reported that Handel engineered the move, which resulted in disastrous PR for the organization.
Although Handel argues the AHCA offers protection for preexisting conditions, a recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation, however, found that under a waiver option the American Health Care Act offers states, there are more than six million people that are vulnerable to being charged more by insurers because they both have a preexisting condition and a lapse in insurance coverage.
Discussions are underway for 3 more debates. Ossoff declined a nationwide CNN debate.
Grins
(7,217 posts)I reject the premise of the CBO..."
prem·ise; ˈpreməs
noun:
1. a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion.
"if the premise is true, then the conclusion must be true"
synonyms: proposition, assumption, hypothesis, thesis, presupposition, postulation, postulate,
verb: premise; 3rd person present: premises; past tense: premised; past participle
1. base an argument, theory, or undertaking on. "the reforms were premised on our findings"
You don't have to accept the FINDINGS of the CBO, honey, but when has the Reich-wing crowd ever accepted facts that don't fit their preconceived beliefs, amiright? There. Was. No. Premise.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)Does not believe in a "living wage", nor that having health insurance is a right, but a privilidge of the rich. Such detachment will likely get her elected.