Republican leadership promise: 'Nobody’s going to lose coverage'

Rss@dailykos.com (joan Mccarter) · Saturday, January 21, 2017, 11:19 am

Mark this well. Sen. John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell's number two guy in Senate Republican leadership, told a group of Republican governors on January 19, 2017, that no one has to worry about losing their health coverage.

“Nobody’s going to lose coverage,” Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said after the meeting. “If there’s one word that came up most, it’s flexibility. One-size-fits-all Washington doesn’t take into account the differences between a state like Texas with 28 million people and a state like South Dakota, for example.”

Of course, that's total bunk—the flexibility part is code for "block granting Medicaid" and that could result in as many as 21 million people losing their coverage.

But Cornyn made that promise. He laid down that marker. We're not going to forget.

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