I’ve heard of dick measuring contests. I’ve never seen a sanity competition before.
Who knew math could be so complicated?
”Obamacare repeal would result in 51 million uninsured people under age 65 by 2026, versus 28 million under the status quo.”
51 million Americans without healthcare is better than 28 million Americans without healthcare?
Gosh, if I didn’t know better, I’d think the GOP goal is to maximize Americans without healthcare…
Perhaps what he meant was that the 28.2 million currently uninsured are pining for the company of 22 million additional unfortunates.
Is it lying or stupidity? Either way it terrifying to have these people in charge of the country.
Professional crap flinger flings crap professionally. This is a steaming pile of Spicer.
It’s an insecticide and a refreshing cola drink.
The number of uninsured under Obamacare would be half the current figure if all 50 states had expanded Medicaid. I see he left out that part. Obamacare as passed insured them. Those R-controlled states chose not to cover them even on the feds’ dime.
Here are some states that didn’t expand Medicaid: Texas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin. These are just the states with 10 or more electoral votes. Except for Virginia (where the R-controlled state assembly refused to expand), all those states went to Trump. The only other state that didn’t expand Medicaid which Hillary won is Maine.
Texas and Florida alone probably would have added 5 million formerly uninsured people to their Medicaid rolls.
“Spicer”, “Tweets”, “Baffling”.
All in the same sentence, all in a row…
Say no more…
It sounds crazy unless you keep in mind these are the same people who deny any Russian election meddling and simultaneously blame Obama for not doing more to stop it.
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.” — Orwell
It’s amazing how Orwell described contemporary Republican mentality so accurately and fully back in 1949.
It also explains the insanity inherent in these photos:
The dull, sober, gray GOP of my childhood has been replaced by a gabbling crowd of semi-literate lunatics yelling “boogedy boogedy” at the shadows and shoving money into the pockets of the grifters that run the party.
Typical Gopper, lie, obfuscate, lie, make crap up. Just crap to confuse and befuddle and elicit both siderism from DC social media. I’m sure Maureen Dowd can epound upon from her golden perch on high, as could any Politico Hack worth their salary. Or maybe PJ Media?
It’s like the joke about the two women complaining at a restaurant. One says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.”
Can’t wait for Mitch and Rand to take their turns.
Spicer for Medicare for all?
“…over 28 million nonelderly individuals remained uninsured in 2015. Many of these people are ineligible for ACA coverage, either because of their immigration status or because their state did not expand Medicaid.”
So - it’s not “Obama’s Fault” that there are still 28M uninsured. It is largely due to the refusal to expand medicare coverage in certain states.
Typical lying nonsense…
Spicer and by extention Trump are getting like Joe McCarthy throwing out different numbers, in Tailgunner Joe’s case it was how many Commies (you know what we now call Russians) worked in the State Department.
Someone ought to inform Spicey et al that the number of uninsured today is higher than it would have been if ALL states had implemented the Medicaid expansion as intended under the ACA.
Of course, those are facts and we know how well this WH loves real facts…