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Mike Johnson went on the Sunday morning shows and lied about the House-passed budget bill. Johnson lied about Medicaid cuts. The Speaker lied in regards to the Trump economic system, and he lied about what the invoice would do for the nation by way of progress.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) listened to Johnson after which instructed the nation the reality.
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Right here is how Bennet described what the Home invoice would do to healthcare:
I feel we’re going to verify the American individuals perceive what’s on this invoice.
It’s fully incoherent. The Republicans cannot agree on what they’re making an attempt to do with it. And the cuts to Medicaid are going to be devastating to rural America and to rural Colorado. I’ve spent a ton of time listening to well being care suppliers in pink components of the state that voted for Donald Trump that aren’t engaged in waste, fraud, and abuse.
They’re engaged in making an attempt to ship well being care on a shoestring as it’s, no O.B. providers, no — not one of the issues that anyone within the industrialized world expects to have out of their well being care system as it’s. And now Trump and his allies are going to chop Medicaid.
And it should drive lots of these suppliers out of enterprise. It may make it unattainable for those who reside a really good distance from Denver to have the ability to get well being care for his or her youngsters. And I hope we’re capable of cease it.
However, if we will not, if the 53 Republicans within the Senate insist on ramming it via, the American persons are going to know who owns this piece of laws.
Bennet mentioned about Johnson:
It isn’t true.
Look, I — earlier than I used to be within the Senate, I used to be a faculty superintendent. A lot of the youngsters had been youngsters dwelling in poverty. Their dad and mom had been working two and three jobs. The problem will not be that they weren’t working. It is that, regardless that they had been working, they could not get their youngsters out of poverty as a result of our economic system hasn’t been working nicely sufficient for working individuals and for the center class.
The identical is true within the rural communities that I used to be simply speaking about which are being served by these hospitals. I — and, by the best way, it isn’t nearly Medicaid. I had a dialog the opposite day with — simply final week with a girl who’s graduated from Western in Gunnison, Colorado, who mentioned: “I will be off my dad and mom’ medical insurance in a yr. Is it actually true that I will need to have two or three jobs only for the privilege of paying for medical insurance?”
That’s loopy, Jake. And that’s the well being care system that America has in the present day that Trump goes to make worse. Democrats must be determining not simply methods to cease these cuts, however to offer the American individuals a imaginative and prescient for what a contemporary well being care system that appears like the remainder of the industrialized world would appear like for the American individuals, as a result of these choices that we’ll make actually do — ultimately, it isn’t in regards to the rhetoric of Speaker Johnson.
It is about how it should have an effect on individuals of their day by day lives. And I am sorry to say this invoice goes to have an effect on them in a significant method. In a damaging method.
The Home Republican invoice is mindless. It’s pile of junk cobbled collectively to get via the Home. It contradicts itself, and has no coherant function. It’s a huge bloated bunch of stuff that was patched up in order that the Home might say it handed one thing.
To name this a nasty invoice can be an understatement.
It’s a horrible invoice, and the American individuals must know precisely what’s in it with a view to maintain each single Republican who votes for it accountable.
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