What is the most repeated lie Trump tells? Naturally, it’s about Obamacare being dead.
The most Orwellian part about this lie is that the uncertainty with the exchanges is actually Donald Trump’s administration’s fault.
“Trump’s most repeated claim, uttered 44 times, was some variation of the statement that the Affordable Care Act is dying and ‘essentially dead,'” The Washington Post wrote. “But the Congressional Budget Office has said that the Obamacare exchanges, despite well-documented issues, are not imploding and are expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future. If anything, actions taken by the Trump administration have spawned uncertainty. Several insurance companies have cited Trump administration policy as a reason to leave insurance markets in certain states, though others have sensed opportunity and moved in to replace insurers who have left.”
Over and over again, insurance companies have said specifically that the Trump administration is causing uncertainty in the insurance markets.
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In an article about the growing frustration with the Trump administration’s management of the Obamacare exchanges, The Los Angeles Times noted, “Health insurers across the country are making plans to dramatically raise Obamacare premiums or exit marketplaces amid growing exasperation with the Trump administration’s erratic management of the program and its conflicting signals about the fate of aid for low-income consumers and other key issues.
At the same time, state insurance regulators — both Democrat and Republican — have increasingly concluded they cannot count on the Trump administration to help them ensure that consumers will have access to a health plan next year.”
It got much worse. Of the Trump administration’s lack of leadership, a senior company official told The Times, “There is a sense that there are no hands on the wheel and they are just letting the bus careen down the road.”
No hands on the wheel. That sums up the Trump Administration on just about every topic, except ways they can harm the U.S.A., give Russia more power, undermine democracy, give big presents to the very rich or take rights away from groups of people.
The most repeated lie Donald Trump has told is about Obamacare imploding. This from the man and party who can’t get their own health care “ideas” together enough to get their own party to agree, let alone pass something that would actually help the people they claim to represent.
Donald Trump just can’t quit his obsession with lying about President Obama.
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