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Florida GOP Rep. Yoho (yahoo?) lies about Medicaid, claims 80,000 more deaths attributed to it
http://shareblue.com/florida-gop-rep-lies-about-medicaid-claims-80000-more-deaths-attributed-to-it/The Republican plan to repeal Obamacare remains deathly unpopular, and the GOP have foundered in their attempts to lie their way into higher approval numbers for the plan. But that did not stop Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) from trotting out the desperate and false claim that Medicaid expansion killed 80,000 Medicaid recipients.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
One of the key obstacles to the success of the Affordable Care Act was the sheer volume of lies that were fed to the American about the bill, often abetted by the press.
This time around, though, those lies have failed to weaken support for the now-popular Obamacare, or to garner any support for the Republican repeal plan.
But that reality did not stop House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) from throwing out a desperate whopper during a CNN interview, claiming that Medicaid expansion has caused 80,000 more deaths attributable to Medicaid care:
(please go to article to see the schmuck make this statement on video)
"And then if you look at where the majority of the people went, they went on Medicaid, and historically if you compare Medicaid, the outcome of service to other parts of the industrialized world, it has some of the poor, worst performing outcomes. In fact, since the Affordable Care Act came in, theres been over 80,000 more deaths attributed to Medicaid care, and we want people to have access, but more importantly, we want them to have access to quality care."
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Florida GOP Rep. Yoho (yahoo?) lies about Medicaid, claims 80,000 more deaths attributed to it (Original Post)
Bill USA
Mar 2017
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DK504
(3,847 posts)1. They can't open their mouths with out lying, they're pathological.
Now that people that are on "Obamacare", especially those that hate him so much they become a hate group in and of themselves. They realize that they lerve that there "Obamacare". These are the same people that haven't been educated about the New Deal or the Great Society, they have no idea what they hate or why.
Phoenix61
(17,004 posts)2. Funny, I've never seen a Medicaid only
sign in front of any doctor's office or hospital. Just pulling numbers out of something. Plus, thanks to our Repub gov, Florida didn't take Medicaid expansion money.