If JD Vance Is Wealthy, Why Did He Let His Own Mother Scrape By On Medicaid? 24-Karat Fraud 🗣

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A sordid tale of Republican political and religious hypocrisy. By Mike Lofgren, Oct 17, 2024. - Edited.
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Assuming they haven’t been vacationing on Mars for the last decade or so, every American must be aware that it has been the relentless ambition of Republican politicians to repeal, roll back, or weaken the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare. ACA is a major government safety-net project alongside Social Security and Medicare. As of Feb. 2024, 20.8 million persons were enrolled in the program, the highest number at any one time, and since Obamacare’s passage, almost 50 million people have received coverage at some point.

The health care program has literally been a lifesaver for countless Americans.

Up until the culmination of their repeal efforts in mid-2017 (during GOP control of both houses and the presidency), when the program only survived because Sen. John McCain left treatment for terminal cancer to vote “no,” Newsweek “found at least 70 Republican-led attempts to repeal, modify or otherwise curb the ACA since its inception as law on March 23, 2010.” GOP attempts to wreck the program, although more sporadic since, have continued. This year, House Republicans reported a budget that would have defunded ACA as well as Medicaid expansion while hiking Medicare premiums and prescription drug prices.

"His (Vance) ostentatious religiosity is largely phony and used as a vehicle for his ambition to rise in the Republican Party."

With that history in mind, picture the surreal moment in the vice-presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance, when the latter said “Members of my family actually got private health insurance, at least, for the first time . . . under Donald Trump’s leadership.” Vance said that his family members switched from Medicaid to Obamacare between 2017 - 2021. The Ohio senator has frequently tried to characterize Trump’s actions while president as having preserved or stabilized ACA, when in fact he did no such thing. Enrollments in the ACA exchange in Ohio, where Vance’s family lived, fell during Trump’s presidency, while the uninsured rate increased. The ACA survived simply because congressional Republicans couldn’t quite muster the votes to kill it, but not for want of trying.

Candidate Trump is still angling to get rid of it, although he only has “concepts of a plan” to replace it.

How does Vance get away with such lies? They lie because they dare not reveal their actual agenda, “We intend to kick you off your health care and provide a huge payday to the drug companies who give us campaign donations.” .. The irony is that millions of Republican voters are covered by ACA, including in Ohio, where Vance’s family lives. So the Ohio Republican has to perform his little rhetorical dance to anesthetize the base and puzzle the rest of us. There is still little doubt that if Vance were to become part of a Trump administration presiding over a Republican-controlled House and Senate, the GOP would take another run at repealing Obamacare.

.. When Vance told us on TV that his mother, and other family members were subsisting on Medicaid until they could enroll in ACA, JD, the erstwhile hillbilly, had pulled himself up by the bootstraps of Silicon Valley oligarch Peter Thiel, and made quite a handsome pile of money.

Another sordid lie of Vance’s revelation about the ACA is how Big government is reviled for allegedly usurping the responsibility of the family to look out for one another’s needs...

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