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Mike Johnson went on the Sunday morning exhibits and lied in regards to the Home-passed funds 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 by way of progress.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) listened to Johnson after which informed the nation the reality.
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Right here is how Bennet described what the Home invoice would do to healthcare:
I believe we’re going to verify the American folks perceive what’s on this invoice.
It’s utterly 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 crimson 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. companies, 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 may drive a number of these suppliers out of enterprise. It may make it unattainable 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 capable of cease it.
However, if we will not, if the 53 Republicans within the Senate insist on ramming it by means of, the American individuals are going to know who owns this piece of laws.
Bennet mentioned about Johnson:
It is not true.
Look, I — earlier than I used to be within the Senate, I used to be a faculty superintendent. Many of the youngsters have been youngsters dwelling in poverty. Their dad and mom have been working two and three jobs. The difficulty isn’t that they weren’t working. It is that, despite the fact that they have 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 girl who’s graduated from Western in Gunnison, Colorado, who mentioned: “I will be off my dad and mom’ medical health insurance in a yr. Is it actually true that I will must 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 at the moment that Trump goes to make worse. Democrats must be determining not simply the way to cease these cuts, however to provide 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 appear like for the American folks, as a result of these selections that we’ll make actually do — in the long run, it is not in regards to the rhetoric of Speaker Johnson.
It is about how it may have an effect on folks 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 adverse method.
The Home Republican invoice is senseless. It’s pile of junk cobbled collectively to get by means of the Home. It contradicts itself, and has no coherant function. It’s a large bloated bunch of stuff that was patched up in order that the Home may say it handed one thing.
To name this a foul invoice can be an understatement.
It’s a horrible invoice, and the American folks have to know precisely what’s in it to be able to maintain each single Republican who votes for it accountable.
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