Day 130: Trump’s Word Salad on Health Care is One Big Lie

Donald Trump tried a health care tweet yesterday. We’ll try to translate and correct.

“I suggest” — Umm, Trump helped shaped the disastrous bill called the American Health Care Act. He doesn’t need to/get to suggest anything at this point. The proof is the ink on the paper.

“that we add more dollars to Healthcare” — What does this mean? Add more dollars to Healthcare? He knows the bill he helped shape drastically cuts “dollars to Healthcare,” right? This also implies that we simply add a couple bucks, but really the bill underfunds health care by tens of billions of dollars.

“and make it the best anywhere.” — Again, this is coming from a guy who both praised Australia’s universal health care system while deriding the same concept on numerous other occasions. The sad thing is, many people will believe we will have the best anywhere, just because he said it, even though the bill’s popularity is in the teens.

“Obamacare is dead” — Actually, it’s not dead. Millions of people are still taking advantage of policies obtained by the program, getting needed treatment and medication. If the Affordable Care Act is going to be killed, it will be the Republicans’ doing and the Republicans’ doing alone.

“ — the Republicans will do much better!” — There has been zero evidence of this. Seven years of decrying a new and better bill and the American people were delivered a tax-cut disguised as a health care bill. After being drafted in secrecy. After failing once. After barely passing with a substantial GOP majority in the House. After requiring backroom concessions and handshakes. But before the non-partisan CBO weighed in and revealed that 23 million Americans would lose insurance coverage if the bill becomes law. Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is quietly pessimistic about the Senate’s ability to do anything more than repealing Obamacare. The House bill is so odious that it’s a non-starter for the vast majority of Republicans in the Senate so they’re starting from square one, but many on the right have very different ideas of what a health care bill should look like.

Trump just spouts platitudes, yes, but they are all aimed at getting his base — his bubble — to blindly eat what he feeds them. Tweets like this seem innocuous. But people believe what Trump says, even people who will be hurt by the actions he seeks to take.

130 days in, 1332 to go

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