Posted on 06/25/2017 11:33:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
After Senate Republicans unveiled their ObamaCare replacement on Thursday, ABC smeared the bill during World News Tonight with claims that people were going to pay more for less and that Medicaid was being cut. On Sunday, Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos took to his show, This Week to continue their smear campaign. “The President right there said no cuts in Medicaid … Why is the President going back on his promise,” he rudely yelled at Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway.
According to Stephanopoulos, “A lot of senators have questions about the Senate bill. Particularly those cuts in Medicaid. More than $800 billion.” He also asserted that the cuts to Medicaid in the Senate bill were larger than those in the House bill.
“These are not cuts to Medicaid, George. This slows the rate for the future and it allows governors more flexibility with Medicaid dollars because they're closest to the people in need,” Conway tried to explain. “We are trying to get Medicaid back to its original moorings. And--” she said before her host cut her off and spoke over her.
Sounding irritated, the ABC host said: “Kellyanne, I don’t see how you can say the more $800 billion in savings is not cuts.” He tried to back up is claim with the criticisms of big government Republicans. “You don’t have to take my word for it,” he said defensively. “It’s the Republican senators you're facing right now who have that problem, led by Senator Dean Heller of Nevada [and Susan Collins].”
Conway again tried to explain why they were incorrect about there being cuts, but Stephanopoulos continued to interrupt her to tell her she was wrong:
a href=http://www.mrctv.org/videos/fake-news-stephanopoulos-claims-senate-bill-cuts-medicaid-800-billion>Fake News: Stephanopoulos Claims Senate Bill Cuts Medicaid by $800 Billion
Kellyanne, hold on a second. There's no way you can say a 15-year-old on Medicaid today is not going to be affected by the cuts in the future. You said everybody on Medicaid now is grandfathered in and is not going to face any cuts. That simply is not factual if you have more than $800 billion in cuts. It’s also—
It was Conway's turn to interrupt. “But you keep calling them cuts. We don't see them as cuts. It’s slowing the rate of growth in the future and getting Medicaid back to where it was,” she accurately told Stephanopoulos. “ObamaCare expanded the pool of Medicaid recipients beyond its original intentions.”
And she’s right. The Senate bill doesn’t cut Medicaid, it only slows down the rate of spending growth by the federal government. In fact, the bill pegs spending growth to inflation so it’s almost guaranteed to go up every year.
But, of course, in Washington D.C. anything that’s not an increase in spending is considered a cut. President Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney had expertly mocked D.C.’s definition of a budget cut during a press briefing back in May. “There are no Medicaid cuts in the terms of what ordinary human beings would refer to as a cut. We are not spending less money one year than we spent before,” Mulvaney joked as he talked about a proposed budget at the time.
But to Stephanopoulos, the facts be damned. “Again, it's the Republican senators calling this cuts. It’s the experts calling this cuts. You can't say that $800 billion in savings are not cuts,” he exclaimed before turning the subject to funding for fighting opioid addiction. He also falsely claimed that Trump was gutting that too.
Shameless Stephanopoulos never addressed if there were actual cut to Medicaid. He had no problem with going along with false assertions of cuts because it helped the liberal smears against the GOP bill.
Transcript below:
ABC This Week June 25, 2017 9:05:05 AM Eastern
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: So, you laid out the problems with Obamacare. A lot of senators have questions about the Senate bill. Particularly those cuts in Medicaid. More than $800 billion. I want to show the President's first speech when he announced for president.
DONALD TRUMP: Save Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security without cuts. Have to do it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: The President right there said no cuts in Medicaid, had several tweets on that same subject. This bill has, even more, Medicaid cuts than the House bill. Why is the President going back on his promise?
KELLYANNW CONWAY: These are not cuts to Medicaid, George. This slows the rate for the future and it allows governors more flexibility with Medicaid dollars, because they're closest to the people in need. Medicaid's imperative, its founding was meant to help the poor, the sick, the needy, the disabled, children, some elderly, women, particularly pregnant women. We are trying to get Medicaid back to its original moorings. And--
STEPHANOPOULOS [Interrupting Conway]: Kellyanne, I don’t see how you can say the more $800 billion in savings is not cuts. And don’t—You don’t have to take my word for it. It’s the Republican senators you're facing right now who have that problem, led by Senator Dean Heller of Nevada. He said he's voting no. Also Senator Susan Collins.
(…)
STEPHANOPOULOS: Kellyanne, hold on a second. There's no way you can say a 15-year-old on Medicaid today is not going to be affected by the cuts in the future. You said everybody on Medicaid now is grandfathered in and is not going to face any cuts. That simply is not factual if you have more than $800 billion in cuts. It’s also—
CONWAY: But you keep calling them cuts. We don't see them as cuts. It’s slowing the rate of growth in the future and getting Medicaid back to where it was. ObamaCare expanded the pool of Medicaid recipients beyond its original intentions. And George, you have to look at the whole health care bill, 142 pages in total here in order to have a full conversation.
(…)
STEPHANOPOULOS: Again, it's the Republican senators calling this cuts. It’s the experts calling this cuts. You can't say that $800 billion in savings are not cuts.
Steponallofus was very rude to Conway. He talked over her and would not let her answer.
Maybe if you pulled your head out of your a**, you could.
It will be non-stop trashing of the bill even they don’t know what’s in it.
Trump: do whatever keeps you in office. I don’t care about the f*cking bill.
ALL Democrats including little Georgie are RUDE to Republicans!
Stephanopoulos is such a fruit-basket. The libs love him because he’s living their American dream: go work for a DemonRat president as an intern, be kept on because they like you, and after his 8 years are up go get paid $11 million a year to read a teleprompter. I hope a 400-lb meteorite falls on him at work.
George is a liar, he is up Hillary's butt 23/7, and he is uniformed to the REAL WORLD and is rude on top of that...
Why care what people like this say??? We have a Country to get back on it's feet, we have The Greatest President to lead us in this endeavor...why waste the few minutes you have on garbage???
The communist tactics of the leftists depend upon bullying and repeating their lies. Fortunately for sane people with common sense, this tactic is losing its effectiveness.
More and more people believe that the left does not know what it is talking about, or the left exaggerates the negative beyond recognition, or the left pretends it does not know the truth about the matter.
The press has nakedly abandoned any pretense to objectivity and is a tabloid quality or pure leftist propaganda. The MSM has become plain disgusting to most readers.
If it were true, that would be great.
HOW MANY VOTES did Trump get from non working moocher medicaid recipients?
800 billion? It’s not enough even if it were true.
I like Kellyanne a lot, but this is not a proper response.
The proper response is: "George, you're lying. And you know you're lying. You're trying to sabotage the President of the United States by lying about this. These are not cuts to Medicaid, George. And you know it."
Huh? Huh? Cut out the middle man and, boom, problem solved.
Nobody’s saying how Obamacare destroyed the viability of everyone’s medical plans and destroyed Medicare for those seniors who were told that it would be there.
Oh yeah, those evil Republicans are stealing from the poor and giving to the rich (man, I’m sick of that.) I keep asking ‘how is it stealing from the poor by not taking as much from the rich? Don’t they deserve to have what they earned?’
The more stubborn I ask a very simple question: Why are you stealing from that homeless person by not giving up your house? To a one, that’s stopped them and made them think. ‘Just remember, it’s up to the people taking things to determine who is rich.’
There you go being rational and obvious again. :)
It’s so crazy it just might work!!
I don’t want Obamacare replacement. I don’t want Obamacare replacement. I don’t want Obamacare replacement. I don’t want Obamacare replacement. I don’t want Obamacare replacement. I don’t want Obamacare replacement. I don’t want Obamacare replacement.
GET AN EFFING CLUE GOP before we sit at home come midterms and toss you out for good!
Is the democRat Parties "Boogyeman".
Why do Republicans go on these Sunday morning shows? It just gives the MSM jackals a bigger opportunity to lie, distort, spin, and accuse.
Then come Monday morning, the networks will again showcase the same interview, edited, to make it seem like another Republican was cut down to size and Trump was exposed.
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