Health Care Sunday

Alexander Sharpe Ross (1908-90), "A Visit from the Doctor", undated. Via.

Because I'm not going to get anything else posted, it's just been that kind of day:

.@LibFromNC @brianklaas @BrookingsInst It's really hard to understand what they think they're doing. One theory: Ryan doesn't want a bill.

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 12, 2017

.@LibFromNC @brianklaas @BrookingsInst Because repeal would enrage voters (and maybe insurance companies) against GOP for a decade

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 12, 2017

.@LibFromNC @brianklaas @BrookingsInst In that theory all this excitement is just theater, so base will think they're keeping promise.

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 12, 2017

.@LibFromNC @brianklaas @BrookingsInst When it fails they will say Democrats stabbed them in the back. Favorite conservative narrative.

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 12, 2017

.@LibFromNC @brianklaas @BrookingsInst Trump already tried the line out in advance, on Thursday https://t.co/0lIZDppTgi

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 12, 2017

Then Jason Easley at PoliticusUSA did a wrapup of some of the lies the Republicans told on the Sunday morning shows without explaining clearly what was lying about them, so I tried to fill in some detail:

No, Mulvaney. Republican governors failed to tell CBO they planned to stop 8 million people from getting Medicaid. https://t.co/RvTG7UYHTH pic.twitter.com/TxHEBM5Ixe

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 12, 2017

.@Yastreblyansky CBO forecast was fine. They aren't supposed to calculate in Republican hatred of poor people.

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 12, 2017

Wrong, Tom. The number is 6.5 million on April 15 2016 next to 8 million in 2015, as more realize how good ACA is. https://t.co/7CcR2l9Qqt pic.twitter.com/Hh1FZ782zc

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) March 12, 2017

The Congressional Budget Office score for the World's Greatest Healthcare Plan Act of 2017—not really, that's a rival bill sponsored by Pete Sessions (Idiot-TX)—is going to be out tomorrow and then some sort of shit will or will not hit the fan.