Right Wing Losers

Health care: what they said and what the record shows

What right-wing public figures said and how they voted on health care, set against the record. 38 entries: 5 predictions, 18 votes, 15 claims.

  1. “This week over 20 million seniors are going to receive a check for a minimum of $100 each because I found all that money and was sending it back to the people…”
  2. “We caught them and we're giving all of that money, billions of dollars back to the people where it belonged. And that money has just been sent.”
  3. “When you hear that number, where it was 1 in 10,000 20 years ago, and now it's 1 in 30, or in California 1 in 18, that something—something happened in the…”
  4. “In addition, my plan requires maximum price transparency. That's a big deal. Sounds so simple. So big. And I did that in my first term, and the Democrats…”
  5. “In 1970, the largest epidemiological study in history was performed. Nine hundred thousand kids were looked at. They were looking for autism in Wisconsin…”
  6. “But it kicks illegal aliens off of Medicaid and food stamps—and allows us to hire 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and 10,000 new ICE agents”
  7. “And your Medicaid is left alone. It's left the same.”
  8. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  9. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  10. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  11. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  12. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  13. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  14. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  15. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  16. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  17. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  18. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  19. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  20. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  21. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  22. “The Senate proposal also undermines the balanced approach taken to craft the Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1—particularly regarding provider taxes and state…”
  23. “This wing of the party wants Republicans to build our big, beautiful bill around slashing health insurance for the working poor. But that argument is both…”
  24. “And like I said, well, I did not say this, when my uncle was President, 3 percent of Americans were obese, and today 74 percent are obese or overweight.”
  25. “Today, 15 percent of American kids are on Adderall, and there is clearly a major problem with over- prescription, not just with our children, but with our…”
  26. “Lyin’ Kamala is giving a News Conference now, saying that I want to end the Affordable Care Act. I never mentioned doing that, never even thought about such a…”
  27. “on Choice, we did something, for 61 years they've been after this, they were never able to get it done.”
  28. “In Elmwood, we announced federal funding and unveiled plans for the new Elmwood Rural Health and Wellness Center with Graham Medical Group and the YMCA. My…”
  29. “In Patrick County today to announce $600,000 we secured for mobile health units in the county through the appropriations process. This funding will help…”
  30. “Today, I signed an historic executive order that ENDS surprise medical billing.”
  31. “We're signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan”
  32. “I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now, while at the same time winning the fight to rid you of the expensive…”
  33. “I spoke with President Xi of China, and he has agreed to make fentanyl—another one of the big, big problems, and probably, I think, it's just gone to number…”
  34. “It was that, if you were sick, terminally ill, and we had a drug in the hopper that looked like it was really working out, this country for 50 years would not…”
  35. “But as I told her help is on the way, and the Obamacare nightmare is about to end. … And before this summer is out, we're going to finish what Wisconsin's own…”
  36. “We started that process, we guided through the House and now, it's off to the Senate. We will get this done. We will repeal and replace ObamaCare and give…”
  37. “Obamacare is failing and will fail. And I'm very much looking forward to being on this show with Axe in January of 2017 when finally all of Obamacare is…”
  38. “It looks to me like we are going to end up in what's called an insurance death spiral.”