While the “big and beautiful bill” of President Donald Trump goes to the Senate, the Republicans endeavor to sell voters on the prospect of deep cups in Medicaid and other social security net programs in order to finance tax loss for ultra-rich. The process involved a lot of daring lies to the constituents.
The current Republicans’ current reconciliation bill will launch around 15 million Americans from their health care coverage by 2034. The decline in expected coverage will be mainly fueled by increased requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries, as well as the modifications to market policies of the affordable care law and the failure of the bill to renew the tax benefits for the buyers of the ACA
Last month, Trump told journalists that he and the Republicans “were doing any significant cut. The only thing we delete is waste, fraud and abuse. With Medicaid, waste, fraud and abuse. There is huge waste, fraud and abuse. ”
In a Sunday interview with CNN, the director of Trump of the management and budget office, Russell Vought, said that “no one would lose coverage following this bill” and accused the legislation of being “Astroturfée”.
“This bill will produce and protect the programs, the social security net,” added Vought.
In reality, the bill reduces Medicaid spending by at least $ 600 billion over the next 10 years. What the Republicans say are measures to curb “waste, fraud and abuses” in the program are largely administrative obstacles intended to pour the potential beneficiaries of paperwork and administrative formalities in order to complicate the registration in the programs.
Vought’s statements to CNN represent the last strategy of republicans aimed at combating increased hostility of voters on unpopular cuts in popular programs. While the members of the GOP move to market the legislative package to voters, their unified message was that the legislation somehow protects Medicaid and that all American who loses his health coverage does not deserve it, and even that they would only abandon it voluntarily.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R -Fla.) Accused Democrats of using “Tactics of fear – not the truth – when they speak to the American public”.
“Chuck Schumer claims that the Republicans want to dismantle social security, health insurance and medicaid, but the reality is that we are working to protect these programs,” she wrote on X.
Representative Mike Lawler (RN.Y.) told New York Post Last month, the bill “worked to protect critical services like Medicaid”, while eliminating those who “played the system”.
In a separate tweet, Lawler wrote that the reconciliation package “strengthens Medicaid for the elderly, single parents and the I / DD community by eliminating waste, fraud and abuses”, eliminating the coverage of “illegal immigrants” (which were already not eligible for most medications of Medicaid), by eliminating the “artists of the fraud”.
What republicans like Lawler avoid recognizing is that the vast majority of valid adults on Medicaid TO DO work. More than 60% of recipients work full time or part -time, while others do not work largely because they are disabled, sick, a main caregiver or a student.
Several other Republicans, including representatives Zach Nunn (R-Iowa), Tom Kean Jr. (RN.J.), Ryan Mackenzie (R-P-.), And Rob Wittman (R-VA.) Used a version of the “MEDICAIDI Protecting” phrase in the public declarations defending the legislation.
The representative Don Bacon (R-NEB.) Wrote on X that the Republicans had “protected Medicaid for those who need it”, adding that “the work requirements for adult adults capable with children helped to obtain 4.8 million things on work and the employer ensuring insurance”.
It is a sophisticated way of saying that 4.8 million people would be forced to leave the program, according to estimates of the Office of the Budget of the Non -Somedian Congress.
Mike Johnson House President told NBC News’ Sunday on Sunday Meet the press That the concerns concerning people losing the coverage were exaggerated. “People who complain that these people will lose their coverage because they cannot fill the documents, it is a minor application of this policy, and that follows common sense,” said the speaker.
“4.8 million people will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose,” added Johnson, insisting that “the American people do not buy” the messaging of the Democrats around the bill.
But even if the republicans of the room make their money to increasingly angry voters, they are undermined by some of their colleagues in the Senate. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) called on “politically suicidal” medication attacks, and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY.) Told CBS on Sunday that the cuts are “a bad strategy” to deal with the concerns of the GOP concerning the national debt. (The deficit will increase, not the decrease, following the legislation.)
But perhaps the clearest recognition of the way in which the legislation has come from a senator who did not even take the trouble to deny that the bill would have potentially horrible consequences for the beneficiaries of Medicaid. Friday, during a town hall even in its original state, Iowa, a participant shouted “people will die” while Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) defended the “Grand, Beau”, Bill.
Ernst simply stopped and said to the public: “Well, we’re all going to die.” If the Republicans reach their way, many people will die much earlier than they hoped.
