As House Republicans return home this week to explain their support of an Obamacare repeal bill that, according to the CBO, could cost 24 million Americans their health care coverage, they’ll at least be getting a boost in the form of a national ad campaign praising their votes in favor of the legislation, the American Health Care Act.
The American Action Network, a political non-profit aligned with House Speaker Ryan (R-WI), has reserved $500,000 of airtime for a TV commercial to air nationally and in Ryan’s district, McClatchy reported. House members are currently back in their districts for a one-week recess as Senate Republicans get to work on their own Obamacare repeal plan.
The ad touts the House legislation as a “bold plan” to “cut the deficit” and to “provide $1 trillion of job creating tax relief.” It also claims the bill “puts patients and doctors back in charge of health care,” while “eliminating Washington’s expensive mandates” and “empowering states to reduce health care costs.”
The bill, which the House GOP passed narrowly this week, imposes $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, reworks the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits for individual insurance, makes some of ACA’s insurance reforms optional for states and eliminates many of its taxes.
And let’s just keep hammering it home again and again and again…
What is with the premature self-congratulation on this thing? Maybe because they know this is likely as far as this POS is going to get?
Better get that ad out there before the new CBO score comes out.
Well, there’ll be no question as to who to blame. But in truth, the cheeseheads will blame Obama.
The mendacity of Republican-speak is breathtaking to behold.