Republicans are now paying the price for a years-long campaign of Obamacare lies

Republicans are now paying the price for a years-long campaign of Obamacare lies
They promised better insurance. They can’t deliver. Now the jig is up.
Updated by Matthew Yglesias on March 8, 2017 7:30 am

Donald Trump added his own signature dose of shamelessness to the Republicans’ shameless crusade against Obamacare.

“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump told the Washington Post after the election. Under Trumpcare, according to Trump, people “can expect to have great health care. It will be in much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better.”

This was bolder and brasher than what more establishment-minded Republicans had said over the years. But it was, fundamentally, similar to promises and insinuations made by Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and dozens of other Republicans. It’s not just that the Affordable Care Act was killing jobs and sentencing people to death panels. It’s that Republicans had some much better plan in their back pocket that would give Americans what they want — cheap, comprehensive health insurance that offers them oodles of choice.

It was a great line, and it helped Republicans win Congress and eventually the White House. But it was a lie, and now Trump and Republicans in Congress are paying for it.

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