Jenny Beth Martin, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, said on Thursday morning that she’s not happy with the House Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, arguing that it will increase health insurance costs even further.
“If it passes the way it is presented right now, the hard working taxpayers of this country will be forgotten once again,” Martin told CNN’s “New Day” after saying that the House bill will prompt health insurance prices to “skyrocket.”
She said that she’s been receiving hundreds of emails from fellow Tea Party members, and the majority are concerned about the bill.
“People are reminding me that we’ve stood in the snow, in the rain, in the hot summer heat again and again and again to oppose Obamacare, to work to get it repealed and to stand for health care freedom. What we’re seeing out of the House of Representatives is not what we expected when we voted for majorities in the House and Senate, who promised us they would repeal Obamacare,” Martin told CNN.
Martin was among the conservatives who met with President Donald Trump and his staff on Wednesday night to discuss concerns about the legislation unveiled by House leaders this week. She said that Trump listened to their concerns and said that they could be addressed in phase three of the process — after the initial repeal bill is passed.
Watch a clip from the interview via CNN:
.@jennybethm: If the current bill passes “the hard working tax payers of this country will be forgotten once again” https://t.co/kkwQZBzzcK
— New Day (@NewDay) March 9, 2017
And her proof?? Evidence? CBO budget Report?
Silly me, I thought the Tea Party had been flushed away…
Trump: She is jealous as I haven’t yet grabbed her. Few grabbings by me will change her mind.
I love that she said “the hard working taxpayers of this country will be forgotten once again.” Using Trump’s words against him has to sting.
“What we’re seeing out of the House of Representatives is not what we expected when we voted for majorities in the House and Senate,” …
Where do you start with people like this? Elect a rich SOB with a proven record of screwing everyone he does business with to represent your interests; and then for good measure give him a Congress majority that has a proven record of screwing everyone they do business to. Let me guess. You blame Obama.
How many questions will they ask that all have the same answer?
SINGLE PAYER!
This now represents the biggest self-interested majority in American history.
ONLY wealthy profiteers benefit from a continuation of thier greed-driven agenda, the rest of us are on the wrong end of this construct.
When they A-turfed the Tea Mob so that they could protect those profiteers, they actually identified their most gullible victims. Seems they may be realizing, in that offhanded way they understand their own benefit, their masters are the real foe.
Victims eventually understand who is abusing them.