Senator Blunt, one of our two Senators here in Missouri, posted on Facebook today. What he posted is not just a lie but it makes me angry. What he wrote:
Obamacare is imploding. In Missouri, premiums on the Obamacare exchanges have increased by 145 percent, on average, since 2013, and 25 counties may have no provider offering health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges next year.
That's what he says and what Republicans in that political party want us to believe but here are the facts. First, Obamacare is anything but "imploding."
More Americans have health insurance
than ever
Even doctors support it.
Poll: Just 15 percent of doctors
want ObamaCare repealed
Even doctors who voted Trump support Obamacare.
Most Doctors Who Voted For Trump
Don't Want Obamacare Repealed
Their plan, the Republicans' plan, the AHCA, "Trumpcare", would hurt the disabled, for starters.
The disabled will pay
for the GOP's Medicaid cuts
The AHCA Creates the "Perfect Storm"
for People with Disabilities
Their plan would also hurt the poor.
How the AHCA Leaves the Old, Sick,
and Poor Behind
It would hurt the elderly.
AHCA's End To Cost Sharing Reductions
Slams Older, Sicker Americans
it would hurt Veterans, for God's sake.
President Donald Trump's Moves
Could Hurt Veterans' Health
Heck, even their supposed leader, President Trump calls it out for what it is.
Trump calls House healthcare bill 'mean'
And why wouldn't he call it mean?
Trump Budget Cuts Medicaid Even More
Than House Health Bill
So just who would or does their ultra-secret plan help? Take a guess. It's Republicans, after all.
Republican Health Care Bill Delivers
Big Tax Cut For The Rich
If you already have money, here's yet one more plan--and a great one--for you. If you're sick or get sick or you're elderly or disabled or a Veteran?
It sucks to be you.
So while the rich get even richer, more Americans would be dropped from heath care insurance, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office or CBO.
CBO: Republicans' AHCA Would Leave
23 Million More Uninsured
That isn't even touching exactly how they're writing their horrible health care bill for nation.
Secret Republican Senate Talks
Shaping Health Care Legislation
13 Men, and No Women, Are Writing
New G.O.P. Health Bill in Senate
The fact is, right now, Americans very much support the current plan, the ACA, "Obamacare. This is from February of this year.
Polls: Support for Obamacare
at all-time high
And this is from April of this year.
Gallup: ObamaCare has majority support
for first time
And if Obamacare is "imploding", how do Americans feel about the Republicans' upcoming plan?
Majority of Americans don't like
GOP health care bill
Check out exactly how few Americans support the Republicans' new plan for us.
Quinnipiac poll shows 17 percent
of American support Trumpcare
So, it seems clear here, given all the above, that Senator Blunt and any and all like him who would say or are saying that Obamacare is collapsing in on itself and/or that Americans don't want or don't like Obamacare clearly don't know the facts or, especially, the wishes of the American people.
Don't tell us it's raining, Senator Blunt. We know better.
