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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKellyanne Conway pushes back on "Trumpcare" label: He never said he wants his name on health care bi
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/watch-kellyanne-conway-desperately-tries-to-stop-fox-host-from-calling-gop-health-plan-trumpcare/
Appearing on Fox News Wednesday morning, top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway was asked by host Bill Hemmer if it was okay to refer to the Republicans proposed legislation as Trumpcare, just as Republicans for years referred to former President Barack Obamas signature health care act as Obamacare.
Conway, however, pushed back and said that Trumps name didnt belong on the bill.
Its the American Health Care Act, and I think its aptly named that for this reason, she explained. It wants to cover, it wants everyone to have access to coverage, and that is something that didnt happen under Obamacare Ill call it Trumpcare if you want to, but I didnt hear President Trump say to any of us, I want my name on that. Its not about branding according to someones name. This is serious business.
Conway went on to bash Democrats for saying that Obamacare allowed more people to have more health care access because in many cases the health plans they obtained had high deductibles and co-payments.
Several independent analysts and industry groups have concluded that Trumpcare would both throw millions of people off their current insurance plans, and also raise costs for older patients who would be less able to afford coverage due to inadequate tax credits to buy insurance.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)I think when we start dying, and we will, people like her wont even notice.
WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)neither something small or large...as in epidemics or disasters will mean a thing to her.
MontanaMama
(23,334 posts)She is a vile POS.
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway. In fact, I believe I'll start calling her Lizzie. It's easier to say, and recalls the Model T Ford to me, which is the era she'd be better suited to.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)No one ever asks me who Banshee Barbie is...
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)That clearly identifies her, too.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)MontanaMama
(23,334 posts)Bucky
(54,041 posts)Emergency Back Up Coulter.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...Triumph of the Ill.
tblue37
(65,477 posts)area51
(11,918 posts)giving her the initials, if one wants, of KFC.
spanone
(135,858 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)Obama didn't ask for his name to be attached to the ACA. However, the republicans made sure to make that a distinction to fool their base and it worked!
spanone
(135,858 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)Made them go bonkers and they haven't stopped since.
"I have no problem with folks saying, 'Obama cares.' I do care. If the other side wants to be the folks that don't care, that's fine with me. President Barack Obama, responding to the Republicans use of the term Obamacare, Aug. 2011
Here are some gems from ACA/Obamacare
It will be his Waterloo. It will break him. Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), July 2009
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of [President Barack] Obamas 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." Sarah Palin, Aug. 2009
"If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly." Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) on the floor of the House, Sept. 2009
You think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, 'Slow down. It's too early. Let's wait. Things aren't bad enough. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging passage, Dec. 2009
"I don't want to pay for a sex-change operation. ... I like being a boy." Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) on whether the law would mandate coverage of sex changes, April 2013
Everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food. Therefore, everybody is in the market. Therefore, you can make people buy broccoli. Justice Antonin Scalia, March 2012
If Obamacare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, Id be dead. GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, Aug. 2011
What a load of nonsense!!!
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)sounds as if she is poised to propagate the lie that the term "Obamacare" was something other than an attempt by the GOP to discredit the ACA in the eyes of her own deplorable and racist base.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Dump will get full credit. Youse fucks don't get to pick and choose.
rock
(13,218 posts)Or for that matter, any subject.
Kaleva
(36,327 posts)appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 8, 2017, 08:06 PM - Edit history (1)
Gump embraced it wholeheartedly on twitter yesterday.
BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)Oh, and it's "TrumpCare" from here on out, so suck it up, you ambulatory carbuncle.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)that Trump does not want his name on?
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Nobody cares what you or your lying mental case boss say anymore.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Therefore Trump wants to be associated with it as little as possible.
KA is a piece of work.
Johonny
(20,874 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,181 posts)....it's TrumpNoCare, own it, dipshit.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Cha
(297,503 posts)Cha
(297,503 posts)sagetea
(1,374 posts)not only will his name be linked to this death panel bill...so will the whole of the republican party.
It will be forever in news paper articles, books, comedy skits, and songs. We live in the information age...you can't erase anything.
LeftInTX
(25,504 posts)area51
(11,918 posts)too bad. Suck it up, buttercup.
You broke it, you own it. TrumpCare it is.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)is KellyAnnFitzgeraldConway! When she comes on the channel magically changes.👌 Before the channel change I give her the 🖕🏻 salute!
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)still would have ACA ,but from the actions of these fuckers.
Blue Idaho
(5,052 posts)It's TrumpCare now and TrumpCare forever. He gets to own this disaster and there is nothing that little Sewer Rat can do about it.
KelleyKramer
(8,981 posts)Trump puts his name on EVERYTHING!
So that's very telling he doesn't want his name on the health care bill
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