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anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 03:33 PM Mar 2017

Spicer lying through his teeth re: Trumpcare. Elders, Medicare, etc will be destroyed.

Spicer is being peppered with questions about the "Trumpcare," and as usual, like we are all reality show contestants, he is throwing out glib non-answers, and he keeps holding up the 125 page "Trumpcare" and claiming that it's better because it's shorter. Yeah.

Folks, this thing is going to be a nightmare. Spicer is lying as hard and fast as possible, avoiding serious questions about Medicare, blathering and blubbering about how the states will handle that because they KNOW how to treat their own elderly people, disabled, and mothers and babies on Medicare (yeah, no problems there I'm sure...). Now he's blathering about tax credits yet not explaining that lower middle class and poor families will not be helped by "tax credits," and fancy-sounding "health savings accounts" are merely SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. Again, not a big help for low income people -- or frankly anyone who isn't wealthy. A few days in. The hospital can cost 20,000-30,000.

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Spicer lying through his teeth re: Trumpcare. Elders, Medicare, etc will be destroyed. (Original Post) anneboleyn Mar 2017 OP
I've been kicking names around in my mind for this monstrosity of a bill. phylny Mar 2017 #1

phylny

(8,386 posts)
1. I've been kicking names around in my mind for this monstrosity of a bill.
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 04:10 PM
Mar 2017

Right now, I'm happy with "Trumpublicare" because it ropes DontheCon in with the rest of the Republicans.

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