9 Mar 2017 2:04 pm
The Great Republican Swindle
The Trump administration and GOP Congress are lying about Obamacare and their proposed replacement.
If they succeed, it would be one of the great scams in the history of Congress.
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House Republicans are rushing the AHCA through the legislative process without a cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office to ballpark the bill’s effect on coverage, cost, spending, and revenue.
CBO predicted Obamacare would expand coverage dramatically, and it did.
To the extent that it forecast a greater dip in the uninsurance rate than we’ve seen, it’s because the Supreme Court made the ACA’s Medicaid expansion optional, and several Republican state governments subsequently declined to make their constituents’ lives better, simply out of spite.
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The ACA passed once and for all well before midnight on March 22, 2010, after a year’s worth of debates and votes nearly all of which occurred or concluded before midnight.
The earliest Democrats ever envisioned passing health care reform was July 2009.
Republicans reported ACA repeal out of the House Ways and Means Committee at 4:30 in the morning.
The bill has been public for two days.
The Trump administration and GOP Congress are lying about Obamacare and their proposed replacement.
If they succeed, it would be one of the great scams in the history of Congress.
[..........]
House Republicans are rushing the AHCA through the legislative process without a cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office to ballpark the bill’s effect on coverage, cost, spending, and revenue.
CBO predicted Obamacare would expand coverage dramatically, and it did.
To the extent that it forecast a greater dip in the uninsurance rate than we’ve seen, it’s because the Supreme Court made the ACA’s Medicaid expansion optional, and several Republican state governments subsequently declined to make their constituents’ lives better, simply out of spite.
[..........]
The ACA passed once and for all well before midnight on March 22, 2010, after a year’s worth of debates and votes nearly all of which occurred or concluded before midnight.
The earliest Democrats ever envisioned passing health care reform was July 2009.
Republicans reported ACA repeal out of the House Ways and Means Committee at 4:30 in the morning.
The bill has been public for two days.