Sean Spicer pushed that idea on Wednesday that 28.2 million Americans being without insurance is a bad thing, so Republicans should rush to make that 49 million without insurance.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer was doing his job of lying for the President and Republican Party today, when along came reality to pwn him hard.
Spicer was doing that Republican thing of concern trolling Obamacare over some of the injuries Republicans deliberately inflicted onto it as a way of suggesting that Senate Republicans must help sick “Americans” by passing tax cuts for the rich.
28.2M Americans are still waiting under #Obamacare and remain uninsured. They need relief now. #RepealAndReplace pic.twitter.com/guEEOiaXDy
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— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) June 28, 2017
Along came The Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien, who writes about economics, to do the math for Spicer:
Do you realize that the CBO says this would rise to 49 million if Trumpcare passed? https://t.co/W9oQvWYWLT
— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) June 28, 2017
So Spicer’s argument is basically let’s kill more people to give relief to people. Let’s kick 22 million more people off of health care insurance to give them “relief.”
Republicans are deliberately sabotaging Obamacare just so they can complain in public how about concerned they are that it’s not working well. Fair enough, that’s politics. But here’s where it gets tricky.
Instead of trying to fix what needs to be fixed, Republicans are trying to pass a tax cut for the rich.
Republicans can keep this up all they want. It’s actually doing more to sell the idea of health care being a right than any Democrat can do. I’ve even seen hardcore Trump voters arguing that health care is a “right” and that Obamacare not working perfectly is the problem.
These Republican talking points about Obamacare came from years of trolling the ACA while Republicans refused to participate in the legislating process because they had lost power. Republicans told the public, and the media, that a glitch in the Obamacare exchange websites was the end. They said not being able to keep your doctor was the end.
Now they’re trying to take insurance away from millions of people – 22 million to be exact, by complaining that some people don’t have insurance.
The odds are low that Republicans will manage to actually address the real problem of people not having insurance. After all, they only seem to care about tax cuts.
It has come to this for Republicans, they must hawk these ridiculously disingenuous talking points which set them up to be immediately humiliated by math and reality.
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