ABC, NBC Still Claiming Senate Bill Cuts Medicaid, CBO Says Otherwise

Nicholas Fondacaro | June 26, 2017
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On Monday, the often inaccurate Congressional Budget Office released its report with the latest analysis of the health care bill recently released by Senate Republicans. First impressions: There was a lot for the liberal media to make hay with. In addition to running with the misleading figure of the number of uninsured, ABC and NBC both continued to push the fake news story of there being massive cuts to Medicaid in the bill during their evening broadcasts. That’s despite the fact that the CBO report itself disproves their lie.

ABC reporter Mary Bruce was hyping the opposition to the bill from left-leaning Republicans, during World News Tonight, when she made her fallacious claim about slashes to Medicaid. “Republicans can afford to lose just two votes, but already five say they cannot support their own party's bill,” she touted. “One of the biggest sticking points, the bill's plan to slash spending on Medicaid by $800 billion.

On NBC Nightly News, Correspondent Kasie Hunt claimed that “the analysis also estimates the cuts to Medicaid will help save $321 billion over the next ten years.” That was after she read a vulgar tweet from a Democratic Senator chastising the bill. “Democratic Senator Brian Schatz tweeting, ‘CBO confirms this thing is a bleep sandwich.’”

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