Nets Come Out Strong Against ObamaCare Repeal Passed By House

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 4, 2017
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House Republicans and President Donald Trump took a large step in their efforts to repeal and replace the failing ObamaCare system on Thursday. In a very tight vote, Republicans passed their health care legislation and handed the bill off to the Senate. “But lawmakers voted without the final bill ever being scored, as they say in Washington,” announced ABC Anchor David Muir at the start of World News Tonight, “Meaning they voted without knowing how many fewer Americans would be insured, some predict tens of millions.

Muir’s assertion operates under the assumption that the Republicans were coldheartedly leaving people high and dry. Reporter Mary Bruce even cited an outdated assessment by the often wrong Congressional Budget Office to hammer the bill for supposedly dropping 24 million people from their insurance. There was little emphasis on the number of people who would choose not to buy the insurance ObamaCare forced them to buy.

Later on in the broadcast, Muir was excited to share the video of House Democrats childishly chanting the song “Hey, hey, hey, goodbye” on the House floor. “And there was chanting on the floor of the House,” he hyped. “Democrats taunting Republicans today, waving goodbye to them. Predicting that this vote will cost them with American voters come the midterms.

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