GOP senator on health care plan: 'That's not what President Trump promised'
Source: CNN
Updated 2:35 PM ET, Tue March
Washington (CNN)............
"That's not what President Trump promised," Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, told CNN. "That's not what Republicans ran on."
Cassidy said he is deeply concerned about the coverage loss under the bill, as depicted by Monday's release of the CBO score, and wants changes to it. He also criticized the White House for trying to discredit the CBO.
"You have to have an umpire, even if the umpire occasionally gets it wrong, because otherwise you are only accepting analysis by people with motivations define certain answers, and so I am very reluctant to disregard what the CBO score is," Cassidy said.
Just days before he was inaugurated, Trump said the Republican health care plan would include "insurance for everybody." At the time, the comment sent Republican leaders in the Capitol scrambling to explain that Trump really meant the plan would include "insurance access for everybody" -- a big difference. .................
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/14/politics/bill-cassidy-senate-health-care-reaction/index.html
"insurance access' means no insurance for those 24 million!!
Bill Cassidy, republican candidate in 2014 for U.S. Senator from Louisiana, speaks during the final day of the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference on May 31, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Verbose Matthias
(68 posts)Nawwwwwwww!!!
Sgent
(5,857 posts)eviscerated over this issue in town halls in Louisiana -- including ones in conservative parts of the state. We can #resist! #indivisible!
Liberty Belle
(9,534 posts)who stand up for seniors and/or the poor who will be hurt. They need to see that people support them for speaking truth to power, finally, and hopefully more will do so.