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Mike Johnson participated in Sunday morning shows and lied about the budget bill adopted by the Chamber. Johnson lied on the Medicaid cuts. The speaker lied to the Trump economy, and he lied to what the bill would make for the country in terms of growth.
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) listened to Johnson and then told the truth in the country.
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Here's how Bennet described what the House Bill would do to health care:
I think we will make sure that the American people understand what is in this bill.
It is completely inconsistent. Republicans cannot agree on what they are trying to do with it. And the Medicaid cuts will be devastating for rural America and for rural colorado. I spent a ton of time listening to health care providers in state red regions who voted for Donald Trump who are not engaged in waste, fraud and abuse.
They are committed to trying to provide health care on a workshop as it is, no OB services, no – nothing that anyone in the industrialized world expects to have its health system as is. And now Trump and his allies will cut Medicaid.
And that will lead a lot of these suppliers to bankruptcy. This will make it impossible for people who live very far from Denver to get health care for their children. And I hope we can stop it.
But, if we cannot, if the 53 Republicans of the Senate insist to unravel him, the American people will know who has this bill.
Bennet said about Johnson:
This is not true.
Listen, I – Before being in the Senate, I was a schoolwork. Most children were children living in poverty. Their parents occupied two and three jobs. The problem is not that they did not work. It is that, even if they worked, they could not get their children out of poverty because our economy did not work well enough for workers and the middle class.
The same goes for rural communities, of which I was simply talking about which are served by these hospitals. I – And, by the way, it is not only a Medicaid. I had a conversation with the other day – last week with a woman graduated from western to Gunnison, Colorado, who said: “I will be outside my parents' health insurance in a year. Is it really true that I will have two or three jobs just for the privilege of paying for health insurance?”
It's crazy, Jake. And this is the health care system that America has today that Trump will worsen. Democrats should determine not only how to stop these cuts, but also give the American people a vision of what a modern health care system would look like that resembles the rest of the world industrialized for the American people, because these decisions that we will really do – in the end, it is not the rhetoric of the Johnson speaker.
This is how it will affect people in their daily life. And I'm sorry to say that this bill will affect them in a major way. Negatively.
The House republican bill makes no sense. It is a bunch of waste paved together to cross the house. He contradicts himself and has no coherent objective. It is a big group of swollen things that have been distributed so that the house could say that it has passed something.
Calling it a bad invoice would be an understatement.
It is a terrible bill, and the American people need to know exactly what is to hold each Republican who votes for this responsible.
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