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Sunday, 17 September 2017

Trumpcare vs. Obamacare, Part 2

If Republicans actually justified Trumpcare by saying that health care is not the role of government, but the responsibility of the individual, and that the risk of sickness, bankruptcy and death that comes from this is the inevitable price we should pay for our 'freedom', then I could respect it.

I wouldn't agree with it. Both socially and economically, public health care makes sense. But at least their policy narrative would be consistent with their ideology.

But from beginning to end, Republicans have claimed that Trumpcare will provide BETTER health care to MORE people at LOWER cost, when so much evidence (including the CBO and the insurance industry itself) seems to suggest WORSE, LESS and HIGHER.

So are they being dishonest about their ideology or ignorant about their policy?

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