Republicans Just Voted To Hide Massive Cost Of Obamacare Repeal From Public

[Bill USA]

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/01/06/republicans-just-voted-hide-massive-cost-obamacare-repeal-public/

House Republicans have spent the last six years fruitlessly trying to repeal Obamacare. Now that the GOP is on the cusp of a successful repeal without any replacement plan, their plan to start a War to Make America Sick Again is so hideously damaging, that just in its first decade Trump and the Republicans will cost taxpayers over four times what the Iraq War cost over a similar time period. But don’t worry, a “successful” repeal of Obamacare by House Republicans will also kill millions of private sector jobs within just a few years.

That kind of flagrant debt-fueled spending to accomplish harm looks unseemly because it is, so Paul Ryan’s House GOP did the only fiscally responsible thing that he could do: House Republicans voted to hide the actual cost of repealing the Affordable Care Act from the American public and how we’d spend $9 Trillion dollars to gut our country’s health care systems and deny access to millions of people. First, a Bloomberg reporter discovered that the Republicans call their needless deficit spike an “appropriate” level of public debt:

GOP budget says $9 Trillion hike in the national debt is "appropriate" over the coming decade. https://t.co/9nPBKWOJNk pic.twitter.com/EPDJz8n7Vl

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) January 4, 2017

Then it took a slick addition to the House rules in order to orchestrate the GOP’s back-room deals which would devastate ordinary Americans that just want to be able to see a doctor when they’re sick, buy healthcare outside the group system and help to pay for health insurance if they’re working and poor.

As Shareblue reports, it’s no small task to hide $9 trillion dollars, but that’s why House Republicans voted to doom the Office of Congressional Ethics, so they could slip the below language into this year’s House Rules and hope nobody would notice.
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[font size="+1"]Go to article to see the actual text in the bill which states killing the ACA will NOT be subject to CBO cost analysis:[/font]

(4) LIMITATION.—This subsection shall not apply to any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon—

(A) repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title I and subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010;

(B) reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010; or

(C) for which the chair of the Committee on the Budget has made an adjustment to the allocations, levels, or limits contained in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.

[Alekzander]

1. Not surprised but what are the Dems & Media going to do? Will Dems do everything in their power to

get all of that info out to the public? That is important, maybe we can't stop them from doing it but we can make sure everyone is aware of what is going on just like what happened when the public found out about them trying to do away with the Ethics Commission.

[Bill USA]

4. the media r not interested in covering anything that the GOP doesn't want them to. Dems in congress

have had a very difficult time getting M$M to cover their gatherings to criticize GOP perfidies - generally, M$M just will NOT cover anything that would embarass the GOP.

I think that we - at the grass roots level - should try to make these things known with posts on FB (you can set up fake FB account in case you are wary of showing anything on your own FB account that is political. Also, I try to push/promote DU where I make comments around the web, pointing out that DU is a DEmocratic site offering vigorous discussion of public policy issues we face. I often tell people that DU is the BEST site for meaningful discussion/debate of issues we face as a country.

M$M is a total loss. All they do is parrot GOP Bullshit (MSNBC is very good. But that's about it). I only watch to find examples to criticize them for.

THat's all I got anyway.

[Bill USA]

5. here's an example of what I mean. Dems tried to get media attention with this gathering. I only saw

.. it on YouTube. HOw about that? oneparty can only get their message out over YouTube! If anybody saw this on any M$M site I'd be interested to know. I didn't see it anywhere - but I can only watch, maybe two stations - jumping back and forth.

[annabanana]

2. Who would have thought that the CBO would

need to be crowd funded....

[Angry Dragon]

3. the assholes get bigger every day