And they will believe it.
Actual facts don't matter, at all.
Democrats Pivot to Protecting Affordable Care Act
A new fight over the Affordable Care Act broke out on Tuesday, as Democrats denounced the Trump administration for asking a federal appeals court to invalidate it.
The surprise decision, which could leave 21 million people without health insurance if the court agrees, gave Democrats a chance to move past impeachment and discuss kitchen-table issues like health care.
Why Trump’s New Push to Kill Obamacare Is So Alarming
In a stunning two-sentence letter to a federal appeals court, the Justice Department announced on Monday that it would now seek the invalidation of the entire Affordable Care Act — every last one of its thousands of provisions.
The irresponsibility of this new legal position is hard to overstate.
It’s a shocking dereliction of the Justice Department’s duty, embraced by Republican and Democratic administrations alike, to defend acts of Congress if any plausible argument can be made in their defense.
Nor is the Affordable Care Act some minor statute that can be shoved aside without disruption.
Nor is the Affordable Care Act some minor statute that can be shoved aside without disruption.
It is now part of the basic plumbing of the American health care system.
It guarantees protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions.
It expanded Medicaid to cover 12.6 million more people, and it offers crucial protections to the 156 million Americans who get insurance through employers.
Beyond that, the law forces insurers to cover preventive care and contraception without charge; changed how hospitals and physicians bill for their services; requires fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts; cut hundreds of billions of dollars of Medicare spending; imposed hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes; and much, much more.
Unceremoniously ripping up the law would inflict untold harm on the health care system — and on all Americans who depend on it.
Beyond that, the law forces insurers to cover preventive care and contraception without charge; changed how hospitals and physicians bill for their services; requires fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts; cut hundreds of billions of dollars of Medicare spending; imposed hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes; and much, much more.
Unceremoniously ripping up the law would inflict untold harm on the health care system — and on all Americans who depend on it.
Yet the Trump administration has now committed itself to doing just that.
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