LAST NIGHT ALTHOUGH THE RUMORS WERE THAT THE VOTES WERE NOT
THERE, THE SENATE HAS TAKEN THE FIRST STEP TOWARD A FULL REPEAL
OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.
SUPPOSEDLY THE VOTES WERE NOT
THERE, AND SO FAR THE REPLACEMENT IS NOT EVEN ON THE
HORIZON, BUT THE FIRST STEP WAS TAKEN, AND IT WAS DONE THROUGH
BUDGET RECONCILIATION WHICH WE WILL TALK ABOUT.
THAT IS AN
INTERESTING PROCESS WHEREBY YOU CAN PASS CONTENTIOUS BILLS WITH
51 VOTES AS OPPOSED TO THE FILIBUSTER PROOF 60 YOU WOULD
NORMALLY NEED.
NOT JUST THE BILL, BUT EVEN THE MOVE TO HAVE
THE BILL REQUIRE 51 ONLY REQUIRES 51 --
WHICH IS A REALLY INTERESTING WAY TO PHRASE IT, CONSIDERING
THAT WE KNOW FROM ANY NUMBER OF INDEPENDENT ANALYSES THAT THIS
WILL NOT REDUCE THE DEFICIT, THIS WILL MASSIVELY EXPAND THE
DEFICIT.
TWO IMPORTANT PARTS TO FOCUS ON.
ONE IS THEY HAVE BEGUN, THEY
HAVE BEGUN REPEALING OBAMACARE.
I WHICH I PUT IT ON TAPE, I
WASN'T ON THE SHOW YESTERDAY, I'LL DO FURTHER PREDICTIONS IN A
SECOND, THE WHOLE IDEA THAT, OH, THE REPUBLICANS MIGHT NOT HAVE
VOTED WITH THIS?
OF COURSE THEY ARE GOING TO VOTE TO REPEAL
OBAMACARE, AND OF COURSE THEY WILL VOTE TO DO IT IN A PARTISAN
WAY.
WHO DO YOU THINK THEY ARE?
LET ME GO ON THE RECORD WITH AN
EVEN BIGGER, BOLDER PREDICTION.
THEY WILL REPEAL OBAMACARE,
THEY'RE JUST GOING TO REPEAL IT.
NO IFS, ANDS, OR BUTS.
REPEAL.
PEOPLE SAY CENK, WAIT A MINUTE, THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS, AND
GOOD ARGUMENTS -- SOME PARTS OF OBAMACARE, THE HEALTH INDUSTRY
WANTS.
SOME REPUBLICANS MIGHT WANT TO KEEP THAT.
I HEAR YOU,
BROTHER.
AND IT WILL BE SUPER HARD TO DO IT, THEN YOU WILL
HAVE 20 OR 30 MILLION PEOPLE WHO ALL OF A SUDDEN DON'T HAVE
HEALTHCARE AND THAT IS BAD POLITICS.
YOU GUYS DON'T GET IT,
THERE ARE NO BRAKES IN THE REPUBLICAN CAR, ONLY A GAS
PEDAL.
THEY WILL GO FULL SPEED AHEAD AND DO EVERYTHING YOU
THINK IS NOT DOABLE, THEY WILL NOT HESITATE.
OBAMACARE, I COULD
BE WRONG, IT'S A BOLD PREDICTION BECAUSE ALMOST EVERYBODY IS
SAYING NO, BUT NOT EXACTLY, OF COURSE THEY ARE AGAINST IT,
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT, BUT THEY WILL LEAVE THIS PART AND THAT
PART AND TAKE YEARS TO DO IT.
MY GUESS IS, NO, THEY WILL STEAMROLL IT AND WE ARE
DONE WITH IT.
THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THEY WERE CONFLICTED.
THAT IS WHY
EVERY SENATE REPUBLICAN EXCEPT SENATOR RAND PAUL VOTED TO
REPEAL THIS, EVERY SENATE DEMOCRATS VOTED AGAINST IT.
IT
WAS 51/48, WHICH SHOWS YOU HOW IMPORTANT SENATE ELECTIONS ARE.
AS THIS GOES FORWARD, AGAIN AS I SAID IN THE INTRO, THERE ARE
STILL NO DETAILS ABOUT WHAT THEY WILL THEORETICALLY REPLACE IT
WITH AT SOME POINT.
TRUMP OFFERED NONE IN HIS PRESS
CONFERENCE, THEY HAVE OFFERED DONE NOW, AND I WAS REMEMBERING,
I WAS TALKING TO EDWIN EARLIER, REMEMBER DURING THE PRIMARY WHEN
WE WERE HAVING WHAT I THINK WAS AN AWESOME DEBATE ABOUT THE
COMPETING PROPOSALS TO EXPAND OBAMACARE?
HILLARY CLINTON SAID
I WANT TO DO IT THIS WAY, BERNIE SANDERS SAYS I WANT TO DO IT
THIS WAY.
I THOUGHT HIS WAS WAY BETTER.
THAT IS SO FAR AWAY FROM
REPEALING THE ENTIRE THING, BUT THAT IS WHERE WE HAVE MOVED TO
AT THIS POINT.
THERE ARE A LOT OF CONSEQUENCES AND YOU WANT TO
TALK MORE ABOUT THE BUDGET RECONCILIATION, FIRST IF WE
COULD BRING UP THIS CHART, YOU WILL SEE THE MASSIVE TAX CUTS
THAT THIS WILL PRODUCE FOR 400 OF THE RICHEST INDIVIDUALS IN
AMERICA.
400 OF THE RICHEST HOUSEHOLDS, I SHOULD SAY. $2.8
BILLION TAX CUT THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE, WHICH IF YOU COMPARE
THAT TO THE SIZE OF THE COST OF THE SUBSIDY FOR OBAMACARE, IT
TOTALS ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT STATES.
SO TO GET HEALTHCARE FOR
PEOPLE IN ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT STATES, 20 STATES AND DC,
INSTEAD LET'S TAKE THAT MONEY AND PUT IT IN A NICE ENVELOPE
AND SEND IT TO THE 400 RICHEST HOUSES IN AMERICA.
LET ME GIVE YOU MORE CONTEXT TO THAT, SO YOU UNDERSTAND.
800,000 PEOPLE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TAX CREDITS WHICH ALLOW THEM TO
GET INSURANCE.
NOW WHEN THEY DO THIS, THEY WILL NOT GET THAT
ANYMORE.
BUT THE 400 RICHEST HOUSEHOLDS WILL GET ON EVERY $7
MILLION APIECE.
SO YOU ELECT REPUBLICANS AND THE RICH
LITERALLY GET RICHER, AND YOU DON'T HAVE HEALTHCARE ANYMORE.
IF YOU ARE AMONG THE 20 OR 30 MILLION THEY WILL TAKE IT AWAY
FROM, THAT IS VERY LITTLE.
IN THAT CASE THAT IS 800,000 PEOPLE
WHO WOULD HAVE GOTTEN CREDIT TO GET HEALTHCARE, GONE.
AND THESE
ARE THE 400 RICHEST HOUSEHOLDS, THEIR AVERAGE INCOME -- NOT
WEALTH -- PER YEAR IS $318 MILLION PER YEAR.
BUT WHICH CITY DO THEY LIVE IN?
BECAUSE COST-OF-LIVING --
I HEAR YOU.
BUT THOSE GUYS MAKING $318 MILLION A YEAR, THEY
NEEDED ANOTHER 7 MILLION SO TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE
LIKE, GREAT, LET'S TAKE AWAY HEALTH INSURANCE FOR AVERAGE
AMERICANS AND GIVE THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY ANOTHER $7
MILLION ON AVERAGE PER YEAR.
YOU VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS, THAT'S THE
RESULT YOU GET.
IF YOU DON'T GET IT, YOU ARE AN IDIOT.
THAT'S NOT
FAIR, A LOT OF YOU DON'T KNOW SO YOU ARE IN.
OR YOU SAY I THINK
THE POOR SON OF A BITCH MAKING 318 MILLION-A-YEAR NEEDS TO MAKE
325, SO I AND WILLING TO GIVE UP MY HEALTH INSURANCE, WHO CARES
IF MY KIDS DIE OVER IT?
IT AFFECTS ONLY 2% OF THEIR INCOME,
BUT NOPE, THE HEALTH INSURANCE FOR ALL THOSE FOLKS, GONE.
AND
YOU START TO TALK ABOUT BUDGET RECONCILIATION YOUR EYES GLOSS
OVER, IT IS A PROCEDURAL TACTIC IN CONGRESS.
HOLD ON -- HOW THE
MEDIA COVERS IT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT GOES TO WHETHER --
THEY BRAG ABOUT WHETHER THEY ARE NEUTRAL, I DON'T THINK THAT IS
RIGHT, I THINK YOU SHOULD BE OBJECTIVE.
BUT THEY ARE NOT EVEN
NEUTRAL, THEY ARE TOTALLY PRO-REPUBLICAN.
IF YOU ARE
WATCHING THIS AND PART OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, NO WAY, I'VE
BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING PRO-LIBERAL FOR 40 YEARS.
SO HOW
DO THEY LEAN TOWARD REPUBLICANS?
WHEN OBAMA WAS CONSIDERING DOING
RECONCILIATION TO PASS OBAMACARE IN THE FIRST PLACE, HE THOUGHT
ABOUT IT FOR A YEAR, HE RUNG HIS HANDS, AND THE PRESS CONSTANTLY
YELLED AT HIM, AND I WAS THERE, I COVERED IT THEY IN AND DAY
OUT, AND THE NEW YORK TIMES SAID OBAMA HAD PROMISED TO TRANSCEND
PARTISAN SPLITS BUT IF HE DID RECONCILIATION THAT WOULD BE A
PARTISAN THING TO DO.
THEY ALSO SAID HE PROMISED TO BUILD
POLITICAL CONSENSUS, AND YOU DON'T DO THAT BY DOING
RECONCILIATION.
NOW REPUBLICANS ARE DOING, AND I SAID THEY
WOULDN'T HESITATE ONE DAY.
A YEAR?
TRUMP ISN'T EVEN PRESIDENT YET.
AND THEY ALREADY DID IT.
NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST,
WHERE ARE YOU?
I DON'T HEAR YOU.
WHY DON'T YOU YELL AT
REPUBLICANS AND TRUMP ABOUT BIPARTISANSHIP LIKE YOU DID WITH
OBAMA?
NOW, LET ME GO TO REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY.
SENATOR
JOHN CORNYN AT THE TIME WHEN DEMOCRATS WERE DOING IT CALLED
IT --
NOW HE VOTED IN FAVOR OF IT AND SAYS HYPER-PARTISANSHIP IS
AWESOME.
WHEN WE ARE IN CHARGE, YAY HYPER-PARTISANSHIP.
SO THIS
IS LIKE, OF COURSE, REPUBLICANS USE RECONCILIATION, THERE IS NOT
EVEN ANY DEBATE.
WE ARE DONE IN, IN ESSENCE, LESS THAN A DAY
BECAUSE TRUMP IS NOT EVEN PRESIDENT.
BACK THEN JOHN
BOEHNER SAID OBAMA HAD --
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE REPUBLICANS JUST DID.
NOW THE
WASHINGTON POST BACK THEN SAID, THIS IS BACK IN 2010 --
SO OBAMA FOR A YEAR REACHED OUT TO CONSERVATIVES, THAT IS IN
THE ARTICLE BACK IN 2010, HE DID A BIPARTISAN HEALTH CARE SUMMIT.
HE OFFERED TO PUT THEIR PROPOSALS IN THE BILL AND
STILL GOT ZERO REPUBLICAN VOTES.
I
WOULD ARGUE THAT HE DID PUT MANY OF THEIR PROPOSALS IN THE BILL.
HE DID UNILATERALLY, AND THEY STILL DIDN'T VOTE FOR IT.
DO YOU
SEE TRUMP IN THE REPUBLICANS REACHING OUT?
CHUCK SCHUMER,
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE IN THE BILL?
BERNIE SANDERS, ELIZABETH
WARREN, LET'S DO A SUMMIT.
THE MEDIA DEMANDED A SUMMIT WHEN IT
WAS OBAMA, WHEN IS REPUBLICANS THERE IS NO NEED FOR
BIPARTISANSHIP, WE ARE DONE WITH IT.
BACK THEN THE WASHINGTON
POST DESCRIBED RECONCILIATION AS A --
NOW NO ONE EVEN COMMENTS ON IT.
THIS IS THE ONLY TIME YOU
WILL SEE A COMMENT ON IT.
TURN ON CNN, WHATEVER, NO WAY.
NEW
YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, NOTHING.
THEY JUST WRITE IT LIKE
A MATTER OF COURSE, OF COURSE WHEN REPUBLICANS ARE IN CHARGE
WE DO RECONCILIATION, WE DON'T NEED FILIBUSTERS AND THERE IS NO
NEED TO SLOW DOWN, YOU ONLY NEED 51 VOTES AND OFF WE GO.
IT IS
NOT RISKY OR BIPARTISAN, JUST A MATTER OF FACT.
SO DEMOCRATS,
STOP LISTENING TO REPUBLICANS AND THE CORPORATE MEDIA, THEY
DON'T HAVE YOUR BEST INTERESTS IN MIND.
WHENEVER YOU ARE IN
CHARGE THEY WANT YOU TO SLOW DOWN AND NOT DO ANYTHING, AND
WHEN REPUBLICANS ARE IN CHARGE, FULL STEAM AHEAD.
AND BY THE
WAY, WHERE ARE DEMOCRATS DEMANDING SUMMIT ON TOP OF
SUMMIT?
BACK THEN REPUBLICANS FOUGHT RECONCILIATION FOR A
YEAR, AND YOU KNOW HOW THEY WOULD FIGHT IT?
EVERY TIME IT
WAS PROPOSED THEY WOULD DO AMENDMENTS, I NEED ANOTHER VOTE,
ANOTHER AMENDMENT -- DEMOCRATS, WHERE WAS THE FIGHT?
GONE IN
ONE DAY.
THERE HAVE BEEN SOME WHO ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT THIS, YOU
MIGHT RECOGNIZE THIS GUY.
THE PASSAGE OF THIS BUDGET RESOLUTION WILL ALLOW
REPUBLICANS TO COME BACK TO THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE WITH A
BUDGET RECONCILIATION PACKAGE WHICH WILL REPEAL THE ACA WITH A
SIMPLE MAJORITY, AND IF THEY DO THAT, UP TO 30 MILLION AMERICANS
WILL LOSE THEIR HEALTHCARE, WITH MANY THOUSANDS DYING AS A
RESULT.
BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE, AND YOU CAN'T
GO TO A DOCTOR OR A HOSPITAL, YOU DIE.
MEDICARE WILL BE
CONVERTED INTO A VOUCHER PROGRAM, MEDICAID WILL BE
DECIMATED.
RURAL HOSPITALS WILL BE CLOSED.
AND THEY HAVE NO
ALTERNATIVE PROPOSITION.
THEY WANT TO KILL ACA, BUT THEY HAVE
NO IDEA ABOUT HOW THEY ARE GOING TO BRING FORTH A SUBSTITUTE
PROPOSAL.
THIS IS NOT WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT.
I WOULD
YIELD TO MY FRIENDS IF THEY WILL TELL ME NOW WHAT THE REPLACEMENT
IS.
HOW MANY OF THOSE 30 MILLION PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE?
WHAT IS
YOUR PLAN TO COVER THEM?
PLUS THE OTHER 28 MILLION PEOPLE WHO
HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE?
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO END THE
INTERNATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT OF THE UNITED STATES BEING THE ONLY
MAJOR COUNTRY ON EARTH NOT TO GUARANTEE HEALTHCARE TO ALL
PEOPLE?
THEY DON'T HAVE A PLAN.
GOD, THAT IS REFRESHING.
WHAT IS MORE REFRESHING THAN ANYTHING
ELSE, AND THIS IS A POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE MEDIA -- WHEN
BERNIE SANDERS SPOKE IN THE PAST THE REST OF THE CORPORATE MEDIA
WAS LIKE, IRRELEVANT, INDEPENDENT SENATOR FROM
VERMONT.
NOW WHEN HE SPEAKS PEOPLE ARE LIKE, OH. AND HE PUTS
PEOPLE ON THE SPOT.
NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAVE A WATCHER ON THE
WALL.
No comments:
Post a Comment