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  1. May 4

    The tax cuts in the AHCA save the wealthiest 0.1% $200,000 each. To finance that, millions lose health insurance:

    373 replies 8,639 retweets 6,099 likes
  2. May 4

    The GOP health bill is a betrayal of all their promises. And if it becomes law, they won't be able to hide that:

    127 replies 1,261 retweets 1,806 likes
  3. May 4

    This bill is moving forward not because any Republicans like it but because none want to be blamed for killing it:

    76 replies 286 retweets 418 likes
  4. Retweeted
    May 4

    What they actually promised was to lower premiums and deductibles…

    Paul Ryan using much of this speech to remind his caucus they promised to do something resembling this.
    16 replies 141 retweets 261 likes
  5. May 4

    If this bill becomes law, the tweets from Trump when he sees coverage of what it does will be something.

    Meadows said on policy Trump wanted two assurances, premiums would go down and nothing would happen to people with preexisting conditions
    79 replies 203 retweets 422 likes
  6. May 4

    This is true

    Replying to @jbarro
    In the future, there will be things we should do on healthcare that the lobby groups will oppose. Don't paint them as the umpire.
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  7. May 4

    The AHCA takes $600 billion in insurance subsidies for the poor to cut taxes for the rich. The rest is a sideshow:

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  8. May 4

    I've said this before, but if this bill passes based on these lies, it will become this GOP's Iraq war:

    245 replies 1,124 retweets 1,818 likes
  9. May 4

    Bills based on complete lies do not turn out well in the long run.

    Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to : "We're not taking a benefit away. Nobody on Medicaid is going to be taken away."
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  10. May 4
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    There are conservative health bills they would be proud of. But in both process and substance, this bill will, ultimately, bring them shame.

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  11. May 4
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    Democrats do not regret the day they passed Obamacare. They’re proud of it. Republicans, I predict, will regret this day bitterly.

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  12. May 4
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    And they will have done so for a bill none of them actually like, and many of their careers won’t survive.

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  13. May 4
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    In voting for this bill, they will confirm the worst stereotypes about themselves, a thousand times over.

    32 replies 487 retweets 1,107 likes
  14. May 4
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    They are about to vote for a bill that they have told voters will give them more insurance at lower cost, even though GOP knows it won’t.

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  15. May 4
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    They are about to vote for a bill that violates every single criticism they made of the process behind Obamacare.

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  16. May 4
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    They are about to vote for a bill without any estimates of who it covers or how much it costs, because they don’t want us to know.

    25 replies 621 retweets 1,020 likes
  17. May 4

    House R’s to vote for a bill that literally moves money from health insurance for poor to tax cuts for rich.

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  18. Retweeted
    May 4

    For health care news today follow 's AHCA team: , , , , & .

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    May 4

    Caught McConnell leaving Capitol - he wouldn't talk about the timetable for pushing AHCA thru Senate. "We'll keep you posted"

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    May 4

    So emailed the 2 (of 42) IGM econs who said Trump tax plan would pay for itself. One of them said, oops, he made a mistake.

    It’s hard to find an economist who believes Trump’s tax plan pays for itself
    8 replies 70 retweets 125 likes

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