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Mike Johnson went on the Sunday morning reveals and lied in regards to the Home-passed finances invoice. 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 when it comes to progress.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) listened to Johnson after which advised 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 ensure the American folks 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 elements 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 will drive plenty of these suppliers out of enterprise. It may make it not possible for those that dwell a really great distance from Denver to have the ability to get well being care for his or her youngsters. And I hope we’re in a position to cease it.
However, if we won’t, if the 53 Republicans within the Senate insist on ramming it via, the American individuals are going to know who owns this piece of laws.
Bennet stated about Johnson:
It isn’t true.
Look, I — earlier than I used to be within the Senate, I used to be a faculty superintendent. Many of the youngsters had been youngsters dwelling in poverty. Their dad and mom had been working two and three jobs. The problem shouldn’t be that they weren’t working. It is that, though they had been working, they could not get their youngsters out of poverty as a result of our economic system hasn’t been working properly sufficient for working folks 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 is not nearly Medicaid. I had a dialog the opposite day with — simply final week with a lady who’s graduated from Western in Gunnison, Colorado, who stated: “I’ll be off my dad and mom’ medical health insurance in a yr. Is it actually true that I’ll need to have two or three jobs only for the privilege of paying for medical health insurance?”
That’s loopy, Jake. And that’s the well being care system that America has right now that Trump goes to make worse. Democrats needs to be determining not simply cease these cuts, however to present the American folks a imaginative and prescient for what a contemporary well being care system that appears like the remainder of the industrialized world would seem like for the American folks, as a result of these choices that we will make actually do — in the long run, it is not in regards to the rhetoric of Speaker Johnson.
It is about how it will have an effect on folks of their each day lives. And I am sorry to say this invoice goes to have an effect on them in a serious means. In a unfavourable means.
The Home Republican invoice is senseless. 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 may say it handed one thing.
To name this a nasty invoice could be an understatement.
It’s a horrible invoice, and the American folks have to know precisely what’s in it with a view to maintain each single Republican who votes for it accountable.
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