Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-PA) gooses up Mulvaney's compassion a notch: "I don't know" if people will die
NJ Republican: Who knows if my health care plan will kill anyone?
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/nj-republican-who-knows-if-my-health-care-plan-will-kill-anyone/
Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), a multimillionaire former insurance executive, crafted an amendment that cut away protections for people with pre-existing conditions — which was one of Obamacare’s most popular provisions.
The bill passed in the House, thanks in large part to MacArthur’s amendment, before the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office could analyze its likely effects, and its report released Wednesday found that 23 million fewer Americans would have coverage under the GOP legislation.
***
MacArthur said shortly after the report’s release that he didn’t trust the analysis because the CBO’s actuaries are “not prophets.”
“I don’t put the same reliance on everything they say,” MacArthur said. “They’re trying to answer questions that I think it would be better where they say, ‘I don’t know.'”
= new reply since forum marked as read
