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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 10:26 AM Jun 2017

'You are killing them': Al Franken reveals Trump tax cut for 400 people would fund Medicaid for 750K

‘You are killing them’: Al Franken reveals Trump tax cut for 400 people would fund Medicaid for 750,000

DAVID EDWARDS
26 JUN 2017 AT 10:12 ET

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) on Monday asserted that the Republican health care plan was “cruel” because it would take health care away from 750,000 people and give the savings to just 400 of the wealthiest taxpayers.

“The top 400 hundred people in terms of tax cuts here, the amount of money they’ll get in tax cuts would pay for Medicaid for 750,000 people,” Franken explained to a panel of guests on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Citing a survey in the New England Journal of Medicine, Franken pointed out that “one to two thousand people will die if you cut 750,000 people from Medicaid.”

“So that means you are killing one to two thousand — killing them!” he added. “People on Medicaid have better health care outcomes, they have access to a doctor. They don’t have to have catastrophic costs, they don’t go bankrupt. This works and it saves lives.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/you-are-killing-them-al-franken-reveals-trump-tax-cut-for-400-people-would-fund-medicaid-for-750000/
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'You are killing them': Al Franken reveals Trump tax cut for 400 people would fund Medicaid for 750K (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2017 OP
the republicans bdamomma Jun 2017 #1
I believe they want these people to die. CanonRay Jun 2017 #2

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)
1. the republicans
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 10:29 AM
Jun 2017

new motto: if something works and is good for the people they break it, and give it to their rich friends.

I hate republicans.

CanonRay

(14,104 posts)
2. I believe they want these people to die.
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 11:19 AM
Jun 2017

The GOP sees them as leaches who vote Dem, and therefore not worthy of being alive. If you start there, it all makes sense.

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