LePage rips GOP health plan, calls Trump job rumors wishful thinking

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

Good morning from Augusta, where Gov. Paul LePage is back after a weeks-long trip through Florida and Washington, D.C.

But he’ll be headed back to the nation’s capital later this week to protest the House Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. LePage said he doesn’t like the plan as it was unveiled Monday.

“Right now I am very, very discouraged and disappointed with what House Republicans are introducing,” LePage said Tuesday during a radio interview on WVOM. “We don’t know what the cost is, but based on what I see and I’m reading and what has happened over the last 15 years, I don’t think it’s an improvement. I think we’re punting the ball, is what we’re doing.”

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives released their long-awaited plan to replace the Affordable Care Act on Monday. It substitutes a system of tax credits and grants to states for federal subsidies and would wind down support for Medicaid expansion after 2020.

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[Siwsan]

1. We are now living in a world where GW Bush and Paul LePage sound reasonable

If what ever they have was just contagious......................

[George II]

3. Yeah, but those comments only raise his "credibility score" to 1%, a long way to go.

[Siwsan]

5. True, that!

[cstanleytech]

6. Aye, after all even a stopped clock is right at least once a day. NT

[louis c]

9. That's twice a day.

[cstanleytech]

10. Not if it has an AM and PM in the display. nt

[louis c]

11. I'm 64 yrears old

I remember this saying before digital clocks were common.

The saying was always "twice a day" when I first heard it in 1960.

[cstanleytech]

12. Yes it's a very old saying, I just updated it for the digital age. NT

[NewJeffCT]

2. Not a good sign if they've lost a dedicated RWer

like LePage.

[mpcamb]

8. Right. How much of a liar must trump be to get LePage to call bullshite??

An uncontested Arch-Liar, for sure.

[Plucketeer]

4. Intriguing in that

LePage seems to be the Trump of governors.

[Orsino]

7. Surprisingly noncommittal quotes from LePage.

It doesn't fucking ensure coverage, period. It not only isn't an improvement, it's not eventhe start of a replacement. Why is he hand-wringing over cost?