House Republicans are meeting in Baltimore this week for their annual policy retreat, and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took time on Friday to share their special strategy to win in 2020: reduce the debt and repeal ObamaCare.
“The first thing we would do is make sure our debt is taken care of,” Leader McCarthy told reporters. Under President Donald Trump federal spending has spiraled out of control. The federal budget deficit this week just hit $1 trillion.
“We want to protect pre-existing conditions. We want to lower the cost of health care while raising quality overall,” McCarthy added.
That’s false.
And in fact, McCarthy earlier this year admitted House Republicans tried to kill protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
Meanwhile, under President Donald Trump Republicans are literally suing for the right to not only make it legal for insurance companies to ignore the ObamaCare mandate that requires them to cover everyone, regardless of pre-existing condition status, at the same prices (not charge people with pre-existing conditions more) but they have asked the federal courts to declare ObamaCare in its entirety unconstitutional. One federal judge has already ruled, stating he finds ObamaCare unconstitutional.
Since that ruling President Trump has asked the Supreme Court to kill ObamaCare.
As Bloomberg News reports, however, Republicans say they plan to “reduce the debt by repealing Obamacare.” ObamaCare actually reduces the federal debt.
Republicans have already tried – and failed – more than 70 times, to repeal or replace ObamaCare.
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