Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Sean Spicer lies repeatedly about Obamacare

As a result of Donald Trump lying on Twitter with his suggestion that the protests in town hall meetings regarding Obamacare are fabricated, a reporter asked Sean Spicer about it. Spicer went on to repeat, without a shred of evidence, that some of the protests were fabricated. But he didn't stop there. Then he went on to lie about Obamacare repeatedly. One of the lies he said, for example, is that health care access is going down, when in reality there is a record number of people with insurance in America:



And there's more.

Spicer claimed that many people are not on Obamacare, but on Medicaid. Which means Spicer doesn't know what he's talking about, as the Medicaid expansion is part of Obamacare.

He also complained about parts of the country in which there's only one insurer. That's a double lie. First because insurers are leaving because of the uncertainty Trump created for providing funds for subsidies. So that's on Trump, not on Obamacare.

Second, there's only one insurer for the Obamacare marketplace. But people can buy insurance outisde of the marketplace or get it through an employer. It's false to claim that people are losing access to insurance.


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