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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Fri May 5, 2017, 10:03 AM May 2017

Congresswoman shreds Republicans for eliminating Obamacare while keeping it for themselves

POSTED BY: TOM CAHILL MAY 4, 2017

A Congresswoman just gave a fiery speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives admonishing her colleagues’ hypocrisy on Obamacare.

Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-California) had strong words for Republicans attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and replace it with their own version of health care reform. In a Thursday speech on the House floor, Eshoo pointed out that almost none of her Republican colleagues voluntarily dropped out of their own Obamacare-provided health insurance plans:

“Now there is a real hypocrisy here,” Rep. Eshoo said. “Every single member of Congress has been enrolled in the Affordable Care Act. I want to know which one of you dropped out of it. It was good enough for you — oh, one person. Great. One person. Two. Big deal. It was good enough for you, but it’s not good enough for your constituents.”

As part of Obamacare’s passage, members of Congress and their staffers alike were all moved into their respective state health insurance exchanges as part of the legislation, rather than a previous plan for federal employees. However, the current version of the American Health Care Act (Trumpcare) currently exempts members of Congress and their staff from losing any of their Obamacare benefits. Congress is expected to vote on a separate measure immediately after the Trumpcare vote to address the exemption and ostensibly close the loophole it created.

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wow: <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAnnaEshoo">@RepAnnaEshoo</a> calls out Republican hypocrisy: members get great insurance through Obamacare, their constituents get Trumpcare <a href="https://t.co/xs6GDIMD4F">pic.twitter.com/xs6GDIMD4F</a></p>— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) <a href="


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Congresswoman shreds Republicans for eliminating Obamacare while keeping it for themselves (Original Post) SummerSnow May 2017 OP
We need to be on the backs bdamomma May 2017 #1
It's Friday atreides1 May 2017 #2
They voted on that before the AHCA bill passed yesterday, it passed the House unanimously. n/t PoliticAverse May 2017 #3

atreides1

(16,046 posts)
2. It's Friday
Fri May 5, 2017, 10:08 AM
May 2017

Have the Republicans done this yet?

Congress is expected to vote on a separate measure immediately after the Trumpcare vote to address the exemption and ostensibly close the loophole it created.


I didn't see anything on the news this morning, so I'll assume that once again Ryan was lying, along with the rest of the Republicans!!!

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