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Channel: The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder · 2017 · News & Politics

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In this Majority Report clip, Trumpcare may have serious problems now but Tom Price assures us it's gonna get totally awesome later. Just you wait...

"That was the spectacle on Sunday morning when Republican advocates didn’t defend the plan as much as they lied about its contents. On CBS’ Face the Nation (where I contribute analysis), for example, host John Dickerson pressed Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania—one of 13 architects of the proposal—on those Medicaid cuts. “The Senate bill will codify and make permanent the Medicaid expansion,” replied Toomey. “And, in fact, we will have the federal government pay the lion’s share of the cost. ... No one loses coverage.”

Only the thinnest bit of legalese keeps this statement from being an out-and-out lie. It is true the Senate bill doesn’t formally end the expansion. What it does instead is reduce the overall Medicaid funding stream. Under current law, the federal government pays the full cost of the Medicaid expansion until 2020, at which point it winds down to 90 percent of the cost. The Republican plan would bring that percentage down to the normal matching rate for Medicaid: 57 percent on average. This is a cut, and it’s not hard to see what happens next. Eight states have laws that automatically end the Medicaid expansion if the federal government reneges on its original 90 percent match, reducing coverage by an estimated 3.3 million people. Other expansion states will have to choose between raising taxes to meet the strain on their budgets or ending the expansion program altogether."*

Read more here: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/06/republicans_can_only_defend_their_health_care_bill_by_lying.html

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