Washington, the House of Republicans, who voted to accept President Donald Trump’s tax bill last week, know it will reduce the Medicaid Federal Program by $ 1 trillion and expel millions of people from their health care.
But that sounds bad. And people already hate this law. So instead of saying this, the Republicans are trying out a new way to talk about the bill that everyone voted for: just pretend to have voted to increase the cost of Medicaid!
“I don’t know how you can call something from the time we increase the cost of Medicaid by $ 200 billion,” reporter Rob Brasnhan (R-Pa.) Unbelieving on Tuesday on Tuesday Conservative podcastBob Cordaro’s Show.
Later in the show, Bansnhan also falsely claims that the law will lead to “the biggest reduction in the deficit, I think it will be 30 years.”
It is not clear what the Republican in Pennsylvania is talking about about $ 200 billion, but at the best case he is misleading and lying down at the most. The non -partisan budget budget He has clearly stated how the Trump Tax Act and the costs of the Trump Cut $ 1 trillion from Medicaid and Increase the deficit by nearly $ 3.3 trillion Over the next 10 years.
Huffpost is dedicated to keeping MPs responsible and covering how their actions affect you, your community and the country. Support journalism that requires transparency – join our membership program today.
A spokesman for Bansnhan did not answer a request for comment.
In the same interview, he tried to announce that the law included a new $ 50 billion fund to help rural hospitals survive the devastating cuts of Medicaid. But it’s just a simple mathematics that $ 50 billion is not near enough money to compensate for $ 1 trillion – or 20 times more – in cuts.
Meanwhile, Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Colo.)
“According to this bill, there will be more federal money that goes into Medicaid under the republican plan each year for the estimated duration of this bill,” Evans Evans said last Thursday In the public radio show “Here and now at any time.”
Asked what he was talking about, Evans Bomer’s spokesman Delani Bomer said he was referring to the fact that Medicaid’s costs usually tend to increase every year – a funny strange point to make it entirely over Republicans, reducing $ 1 trillion from the program.
Evans essentially claims that although the bill can reduce $ 1 trillion from Medicaid and expel millions of health people, the government is still paying for increased annual health costs for anyone who can still receive benefits from Medicaid. He does not talk about the elephant in the room, which is all the people who will not have a health cover at all.
“Medicaid’s costs are always rising,” Bomer told Evans’ argument. “This is just increasing to a smaller degree” because Trump’s tax law will take $ 1 trillion from the program.
Asked why Evans voted for such a devastating abbreviation of Medicaid, Bomer said the GoP congress did not want “illegal immigrants to receive health care funded by taxpayers” and wants to make sure that people meet the job requirements to qualify for Medica.
With the exception of undocumented immigrants, Medicaid is usually not eligible. And hospitals cannot divert them if they need medical attention, which means that hospitals are already on the most financial basis -more special in rural hospitals serve many patients with Medicaid – It will be the strongest struck than the loss in dollars. The argument for the job requirements is also misleading, as Trump’s tax legislation imposes such strict new requirements that people who would otherwise qualify for Medicaid will now probably fall through the cracks.
Domestic Republicans are in damage control mode after voting for Medicaid’s gut – and it’s weird. Ghetto images
Reporter Derrick van Order (R-WIS.) Trys a different new way of talking about his voice about Trump’s tax law: he tries to take creditFor Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) and the state legislative body, they rushed to cross a state budget to lock in a higher federal dollar match for Medicaid in the country under the Trump Act.
As the Wisconsin state leaders have moved quickly to do so, the state will receive $ 1 billion new annual funding. In more than a dozen social media publications, Van Orden continues to insist that if it wasn’t for him, his governor and state legislator will not receive that money.
With the exception of Van Order had nothing to do with their efforts.
“Congressman van Orden never personally Advocated to the Governor or Our Office for the Hospital Assessment Provision to Be Included in the State Budget UnoTho, Has Clearly AlREDY PART of The Hospital Assessment Being Part of Bipartisan State Budget Negotivs with Republic Leaders, and He had Nothing to do with the Governor Decided to Enter the State Budget the Fedrale Eves’ Spokesperson Britt Cudaback told Huffpost Tuesday.
Asked why he is still trying to get a loan for those $ 1 billion when he seems to have nothing to do, Van Order said the fact that the governor signed the state budget in a late hour law shows that they are listening to him.
“The only reason [Evers] The account was signed at 1:30 in the morning was to make the deadline I talked about and wrote to him, “he told Huffpost.” Period. Make this mathematics. “