The gigantic lie in Mitch McConnells introduction of the Senates health care bill
Ryan Koronowski at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/gigantic-lie-in-mcconnells-obamacare-repeal-speech-66498351bf9a
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Appearing on the Senate floor shortly after the draft’s text went online, McConnell listed some general Republican policy goals such as eliminating mandates, cutting taxes, and strengthening affordability. He also said: “We also agree on the need to strengthen Medicaid.”
Leaving a health care meeting on the Hill on Thursday morning, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) echoed McConnell’s sentiment, telling reporters, “Medicaid is not being cut from our perspective.”
This is not true. The Senate’s bill would massively cut Medicaid, threatening to completely phase out the program as we currently know it.
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The legislation would roll back Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid, starting in four short years. This would, per the CBO’s scoring of the House bill, leave 14 million people without health insurance.
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