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Republicans Just Voted To Hide Massive Cost Of Obamacare Repeal From Public
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/01/06/republicans-just-voted-hide-massive-cost-obamacare-repeal-public/House Republicans have spent the last six years fruitlessly trying to repeal Obamacare. Now that the GOP is on the cusp of a successful repeal without any replacement plan, their plan to start a War to Make America Sick Again is so hideously damaging, that just in its first decade Trump and the Republicans will cost taxpayers over four times what the Iraq War cost over a similar time period. But dont worry, a successful repeal of Obamacare by House Republicans will also kill millions of private sector jobs within just a few years.
That kind of flagrant debt-fueled spending to accomplish harm looks unseemly because it is, so Paul Ryans House GOP did the only fiscally responsible thing that he could do: House Republicans voted to hide the actual cost of repealing the Affordable Care Act from the American public and how wed spend $9 Trillion dollars to gut our countrys health care systems and deny access to millions of people. First, a Bloomberg reporter discovered that the Republicans call their needless deficit spike an appropriate level of public debt:
GOP budget says $9 Trillion hike in the national debt is "appropriate" over the coming decade. https://t.co/9nPBKWOJNk pic.twitter.com/EPDJz8n7Vl
Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) January 4, 2017
Then it took a slick addition to the House rules in order to orchestrate the GOPs back-room deals which would devastate ordinary Americans that just want to be able to see a doctor when theyre sick, buy healthcare outside the group system and help to pay for health insurance if theyre working and poor.
As Shareblue reports, its no small task to hide $9 trillion dollars, but thats why House Republicans voted to doom the Office of Congressional Ethics, so they could slip the below language into this years House Rules and hope nobody would notice.
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[font size="+1"]Go to article to see the actual text in the bill which states killing the ACA will NOT be subject to CBO cost analysis:[/font]
(4) LIMITATION.This subsection shall not apply to any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon
(A) repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title I and subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010;
(B) reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010; or
(C) for which the chair of the Committee on the Budget has made an adjustment to the allocations, levels, or limits contained in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.
(A) repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title I and subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010;
(B) reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010; or
(C) for which the chair of the Committee on the Budget has made an adjustment to the allocations, levels, or limits contained in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.
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Republicans Just Voted To Hide Massive Cost Of Obamacare Repeal From Public (Original Post)
Bill USA
Jan 2017
OP
Not surprised but what are the Dems & Media going to do? Will Dems do everything in their power to
Alekzander
Jan 2017
#1
the media r not interested in covering anything that the GOP doesn't want them to. Dems in congress
Bill USA
Jan 2017
#4
Alekzander
(479 posts)1. Not surprised but what are the Dems & Media going to do? Will Dems do everything in their power to
get all of that info out to the public? That is important, maybe we can't stop them from doing it but we can make sure everyone is aware of what is going on just like what happened when the public found out about them trying to do away with the Ethics Commission.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)4. the media r not interested in covering anything that the GOP doesn't want them to. Dems in congress
have had a very difficult time getting M$M to cover their gatherings to criticize GOP perfidies - generally, M$M just will NOT cover anything that would embarass the GOP.
I think that we - at the grass roots level - should try to make these things known with posts on FB (you can set up fake FB account in case you are wary of showing anything on your own FB account that is political. Also, I try to push/promote DU where I make comments around the web, pointing out that DU is a DEmocratic site offering vigorous discussion of public policy issues we face. I often tell people that DU is the BEST site for meaningful discussion/debate of issues we face as a country.
M$M is a total loss. All they do is parrot GOP Bullshit (MSNBC is very good. But that's about it). I only watch to find examples to criticize them for.
THat's all I got anyway.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)5. here's an example of what I mean. Dems tried to get media attention with this gathering. I only saw
.. it on YouTube. HOw about that? oneparty can only get their message out over YouTube! If anybody saw this on any M$M site I'd be interested to know. I didn't see it anywhere - but I can only watch, maybe two stations - jumping back and forth.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)2. Who would have thought that the CBO would
need to be crowd funded....
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)3. the assholes get bigger every day