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workinclasszero

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Wed Oct 17, 2018, 12:45 PM Oct 2018

Republicans Are Now Running as the Defenders of Healthcare--While Simultaneously Trying to Gut It

This is a shameless gaslighting extravaganza, featuring President Trump and a host of 2018 candidates.

BY JACK HOLMES OCT 17, 2018

In this Age of Shamelessness, it takes a truly shocking piece of hypocrisy or deceit to grab the headlines. The kind of run-of-the-mill flip-flops that once dogged more conventional politicians like 2012 Mitt Romney simply don't register. You've got to go big, and that's exactly what Republicans have done with their new push, in the home stretch of the 2018 midterm elections, to cast themselves as The Defenders of Your Healthcare.

That's right: the party of Repeal and Go Fuck Yourself is now the People's Champion.

Here's Josh Hawley, who's running for U.S. Senate from Missouri:




Hawley is currently one of those 20 state attorneys general who is suing to gut Obamacare and its protections for preexisting conditions. He now says he wants to protect preexisting conditions independently of the ACA, though he hasn't really specified any policies that would do that. You'll just have to take his word for it!

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23835562/republicans-health-care-preexisting-conditions-donald-trump/
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