Noted white supremacist and Majority Whip in the House of Representatives Steve Scalise went on MSNBC's Morning Joe Friday morning to carry on his leadership's tradition of lying about absolutely everything included in the Trumpcare bill that passed the House Thursday.
Starting with people who have pre-existing conditions. Willie Geist asks "so everyone with a pre-existing condition right now who is covered under Obamacare will continue to have coverage?"
Scalise: Absolutely.
Geist: Everyone?
Scalise: Everyone.
Geist: And their rates will also remain affordable even though there's more flexibility for insurance companies state by state?
Scalise: Their rates will remain affordable. If somebody drops out of the insurance market all together and wants to come back and get in, we put extra money in place. The last amendment that was added a few days ago—and maybe a lot of people didn't get a chance to look at it, our members did. It was an eight-page amendment. It put an extra $8 billion in the bill to help specifically people with pre-existing conditions, who just chose on their own to stop having insurance coverage so now they can even get back in the insurance market and actually get coverage that's affordable for them.
Everyone. So the CBO and every single health expert and healthcare provider and health organization and everyone who knows even the slightest thing about how healthcare really works is wrong. "Absolutely everyone" will continue to have their coverage and it will be affordable. Then he says "$8 billion" like it's a lot of money. In most contexts, it would be. In this case, it covers about 4 percent of the $200 billion or so it would actually cost to make high-risk pools adequate over the next decade.
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