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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:16 PM Mar 2017

Kellyanne Conway pushes back on "Trumpcare" label: He never said he wants his name on health care bi

Kellyanne Conway pushes back on ‘Trumpcare’ label: He never said he wants his name on health care bill



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/watch-kellyanne-conway-desperately-tries-to-stop-fox-host-from-calling-gop-health-plan-trumpcare/

Appearing on Fox News Wednesday morning, top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway was asked by host Bill Hemmer if it was okay to refer to the Republicans’ proposed legislation as “Trumpcare,” just as Republicans for years referred to former President Barack Obama’s signature health care act as “Obamacare.”

Conway, however, pushed back and said that Trump’s name didn’t belong on the bill.

“It’s the American Health Care Act, and I think it’s aptly named that for this reason,” she explained. “It wants to cover, it wants everyone to have access to coverage, and that is something that didn’t happen under Obamacare… I’ll call it Trumpcare if you want to, but I didn’t hear President Trump say to any of us, ‘I want my name on that.’ It’s not about branding according to someone’s name. This is serious business.”

Conway went on to bash Democrats for saying that Obamacare allowed more people to have more health care access because in many cases the health plans they obtained had high deductibles and co-payments.

Several independent analysts and industry groups have concluded that Trumpcare would both throw millions of people off their current insurance plans, and also raise costs for older patients who would be less able to afford coverage due to inadequate tax credits to buy insurance.
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Kellyanne Conway pushes back on "Trumpcare" label: He never said he wants his name on health care bi (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2017 OP
Poor little snowflake SHRED Mar 2017 #1
When we start dying, and we will, do you think it will even be a blimp on her news day? Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #2
It won't register a blip or a blimp WhiteTara Mar 2017 #34
I seriously hate KAC. MontanaMama Mar 2017 #3
Her initials are actually KEC. MineralMan Mar 2017 #7
I'll stick to Banshee Barbie lunatica Mar 2017 #11
Or Sewer Rat Barbie. MineralMan Mar 2017 #14
Or Bullshit Barbie nt pkdu Mar 2017 #17
Rat Bag Barbie. MontanaMama Mar 2017 #21
Second-Klaus Barbie Bucky Mar 2017 #22
EBUC MontanaMama Mar 2017 #23
Propaganda Barbie... Raster Mar 2017 #28
Liz Warren gets the Liz name, not KAC. nt tblue37 Mar 2017 #26
I think her maiden name is Fitzgerald, area51 Mar 2017 #36
do they think President Obama wanted his name on it? piss off kellyanne spanone Mar 2017 #4
Exactly MagickMuffin Mar 2017 #10
they did it to SHAME him and he embraced it. spanone Mar 2017 #13
He most certainly did! MagickMuffin Mar 2017 #20
HRC didn't want her name on "Hillarycare," either. Kremlin Kelly Tanuki Mar 2017 #15
Too bad skeletor Barbie! LOL Lib Mar 2017 #5
Kellyanne doesn't understand Politics very well, does she? rock Mar 2017 #6
Never hire a 1st year mortician student to do the makeup Kaleva Mar 2017 #8
He already knows it is a failure. appleannie1943 Mar 2017 #9
He doesn't. Charles Bukowski Mar 2017 #29
The Affordable Care Act says hello BeyondGeography Mar 2017 #12
Hmm, she's looking more corpse-like than usual this morning . . . . GOOD! hatrack Mar 2017 #16
She wants us to believe that there is a single thing on the planet... TreasonousBastard Mar 2017 #18
Oh children, shut the f*** up Dem2 Mar 2017 #19
Because they know it will be a disaster. lpbk2713 Mar 2017 #24
He puts his name on everything else so why stop now? Johonny Mar 2017 #25
Seriously. Shitty buildings and shitty healthcare. Perfect. anneboleyn Mar 2017 #35
Sorry Paddington Bear.... Aviation Pro Mar 2017 #27
Trumpcare it is. Now, let's pin it on Trump and republicans. nt Blue_true Mar 2017 #30
sewerat barbie look obscene in front of President Obama's WH. Cha Mar 2017 #31
Assholecare it is then Cha Mar 2017 #32
Oh kellyanne, you walking piece of crap... sagetea Mar 2017 #33
They're afraid of DonTCare!!!! LeftInTX Mar 2017 #37
Hey, CONway, area51 Mar 2017 #38
A dimwitted twit GWC58 Mar 2017 #39
Kremlin- Comey care NewRedDawn Mar 2017 #40
Yeah - like Obama did - right? Blue Idaho Mar 2017 #41
OK wait, since when does Trump NOT want his name on something?? KelleyKramer Mar 2017 #42

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
2. When we start dying, and we will, do you think it will even be a blimp on her news day?
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:17 PM
Mar 2017

I think when we start dying, and we will, people like her wont even notice.

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)
34. It won't register a blip or a blimp
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 06:58 PM
Mar 2017

neither something small or large...as in epidemics or disasters will mean a thing to her.

MineralMan

(146,318 posts)
7. Her initials are actually KEC.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:22 PM
Mar 2017

Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway. In fact, I believe I'll start calling her Lizzie. It's easier to say, and recalls the Model T Ford to me, which is the era she'd be better suited to.

MagickMuffin

(15,944 posts)
10. Exactly
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:23 PM
Mar 2017

Obama didn't ask for his name to be attached to the ACA. However, the republicans made sure to make that a distinction to fool their base and it worked!

MagickMuffin

(15,944 posts)
20. He most certainly did!
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:35 PM
Mar 2017

Made them go bonkers and they haven't stopped since.

"I have no problem with folks saying, 'Obama cares.' I do care. If the other side wants to be the folks that don't care, that's fine with me.” — President Barack Obama, responding to the Republicans’ use of the term Obamacare, Aug. 2011

Here are some gems from ACA/Obamacare

“It will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” — Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), July 2009


"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of [President Barack] Obama’s 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." — Sarah Palin, Aug. 2009


"If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly." — Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) on the floor of the House, Sept. 2009


“You think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, 'Slow down. It's too early. Let's wait. Things aren't bad enough.’” — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging passage, Dec. 2009


"I don't want to pay for a sex-change operation. ... I like being a boy." — Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) on whether the law would mandate coverage of sex changes, April 2013


“Everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food. Therefore, everybody is in the market. Therefore, you can make people buy broccoli.” — Justice Antonin Scalia, March 2012

“If Obamacare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I’d be dead.” — GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, Aug. 2011


What a load of nonsense!!!


Tanuki

(14,919 posts)
15. HRC didn't want her name on "Hillarycare," either. Kremlin Kelly
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:28 PM
Mar 2017

sounds as if she is poised to propagate the lie that the term "Obamacare" was something other than an attempt by the GOP to discredit the ACA in the eyes of her own deplorable and racist base.

hatrack

(59,587 posts)
16. Hmm, she's looking more corpse-like than usual this morning . . . . GOOD!
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:29 PM
Mar 2017

Oh, and it's "TrumpCare" from here on out, so suck it up, you ambulatory carbuncle.

lpbk2713

(42,760 posts)
24. Because they know it will be a disaster.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 05:35 PM
Mar 2017


Therefore Trump wants to be associated with it as little as possible.

KA is a piece of work.

sagetea

(1,369 posts)
33. Oh kellyanne, you walking piece of crap...
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 06:56 PM
Mar 2017

not only will his name be linked to this death panel bill...so will the whole of the republican party.

It will be forever in news paper articles, books, comedy skits, and songs. We live in the information age...you can't erase anything.

GWC58

(2,678 posts)
39. A dimwitted twit
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 07:20 PM
Mar 2017

is KellyAnnFitzgeraldConway! When she comes on the channel magically changes.👌 Before the channel change I give her the 🖕🏻 salute!

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)
41. Yeah - like Obama did - right?
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 07:24 PM
Mar 2017

It's TrumpCare now and TrumpCare forever. He gets to own this disaster and there is nothing that little Sewer Rat can do about it.

KelleyKramer

(8,969 posts)
42. OK wait, since when does Trump NOT want his name on something??
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:32 PM
Mar 2017

Trump puts his name on EVERYTHING!

So that's very telling he doesn't want his name on the health care bill

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