Oppositeland
by digby
At the picnic, when they blatantly lie about the effects of the ACA (as the Secretary of HHS, Tom Price did) suggesting that there are more uninsured than ever and the GOP is coming to “provide relief” throw this in their face:
Watch the uninsured rate drop across the country as the ACA went into effect. pic.twitter.com/IdmYgnwkc4— Jason Sparks (@sparksjls) July 2, 2017
It was a very imperfect law that needed changes in a dozens different ways and the addition of a public option to make it work properly. But it was a big improvement on what was happening at the time and at least changed the structure of the system in such a way that further improvement was possible. But that assumed Republicans weren’t in the grip of a corrupt, sadistic, power trip. That didn’t work out.
They want to go back to what it was before — and make it even worse. It’s hard not to conclude that they are affirmatively trying to kill people.
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