The Trump administration will do anything to pass their health care tax cut bill. Now this from the people who scream “fake news,” here is fake news from Vice President Mike Pence reported by the Columbus Dispatch.
Pence was caught lying about Medicaid waiting lists in Ohio. He was expertly called out by Kasich’s press secretary and his top political adviser.
They will lie as easily as the wind blows. They will do everything in their power to screw 22 million Americans out of their health care, so they can enrich a few with massive tax cuts.
Keep fighting and let’s kill this Trumpcare monstrosity.
Just over a week after the White House spread misinformation about Ohio’s Medicaid program, Vice President Mike Pence today falsely claimed that 60,000 Ohioans are going without care.
“I know Governor (John) Kasich isn’t with us, but I suspect that he’s very troubled to know that in Ohio alone, nearly 60,000 disabled citizens are stuck on waiting lists, leaving them without the care they need for months or even years,” Pence asserted at the National Governors Association gathering in Providence, Rhode Island.
That prompted Kasich’s press secretary Jon Keeling to tweet ”That’s what we call #fakenews.” Keeling included a link to The Dispatch’s Capital Insider column from Sunday citing state Medicaid data to refute an article cited by the White House. In what “the West Wing is reading,” the piece claimed that after expanding Medicaid, Ohio ″rolled back eligibility for some 34,000 seniors and individuals with disabilities as a cost-cutting measure.”
And Medicaid officials also said there was no truth to a separate claim about recipients of Ohio’s Medicaid expansion “being put ahead of 60,000 disabled Ohioans who rely on Medicaid but are currently on a waiting list.”
John Weaver, Kasich’s top political adviser, tweeted, “Hey @VP stop spreading Fake News to further dishonest sales pitch on health care bill which hurts millions!”