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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWH on GOP healthcare-bill: "Please don't call it Trumpcare."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/12/1680114/-GOP-health-care-plan-is-so-bad-a-White-House-spokesperson-says-they-don-t-want-it-called-TrumpcareThe White House is still refusing to do on-air press briefings with the White House Press Corp., apparently afraid to be captured on video while offering a barrage of bullshit, deflections and endless Saturday Night Live material. During a question about Trumpcare, spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the gathered press they dont want it to be called Trumpcare.
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.@SHSanders45 again says they're not looking for health care to be known as Trumpcare. Sad.
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Well, since Fox News and the GOP coined the term "Obamacare", it's entirely fair if we get to coin the term "Trumpcare".
I still call it donTcare...
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)The republicans want to blame this mess on Democrats.
riversedge
(70,205 posts)Ted LieuVerified account @tedlieu 2h2 hours ago
Ted Lieu Retweeted Washington Post
New #Trumpcare is even worse. Insurers can trick you to get a plan that doesn't cover you if you get sick. That's not insurance. It's fraud.
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Ted Lieu added,
Washington PostVerified account @washingtonpost
Senate Majority Leader McConnell to release new GOP health-care bill that would allow bare-bones insurance policies http://wapo.st/2tN3ex1
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House Democrats and 11 others Retweeted
Robin KellyVerified account @RepRobinKelly 5h5 hours ago
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Did you know Medicaid pays for half of all births in the U.S.? #Trumpcare's Medicaid cuts will put womens lives at risk.
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Rep. Joe Kennedy IIIVerified account @RepJoeKennedy 3h3 hours ago
As Senate GOP starts a new push on #TrumpCare, let's not forget exactly what this bill means for our country.
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bluedigger
(17,086 posts)I'm glad we could find a way to compromise on this.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)louis-t
(23,292 posts)Why should we call Trumpcare Trumpcare if Donny Dum Dum doesn't want us to call Trumpcare Trumpcare, then we shouldn't call Trumpcare Trumpcare. It is, after all, Trumpcare....
Delmette2.0
(4,164 posts)then just veto it. 45 does little or nothing to promote or understand the bill, so he should just veto it.
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)Millstone around their necks. Good.
Leith
(7,809 posts)Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare Trumpcare
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Ordinarily, Lord Littlehands wants his name plastered all over everything everywhere. Did we finally find something so distasteful, so odious, that he doesn't want to slap his name on it? Has Sean Hannity been notified?
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)It's not really Trump's handiwork. The primary forensics says McConnell and Ryan have their fingerprints all over it.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)kentuck
(111,089 posts)We shall call it GOPTrumpcare!