Republicans Voting To Defund Obamacare Used It To Balance The Budget

They don’t want to tell you about the savings Obamacare brings. And those savings have been used by Republicans to balance the budget. Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland points out that without the Affordable Care Act, Republicans wouldn’t have voted for a balance budget, balanced with savings the law has generated.

“There’s a reason Republicans senators like Senator McCain and others are saying this is absolutely insane because the Republican proposition here is they’re going to shut down the government if they can’t deny healthcare to millions of Americans, including millions of kids who are right now benefiting from the Affordable Care Act, kids with pre-existing conditions who can no longer be thrown off of their insurance policies,” Van Hollen, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“That’s right now. They’re saying we’re going to shut down the government unless we get rid of those protections, number one. Number two, [House Republicans] have to explain to the American people how they voted for a budget that includes all of the Medicare savings from ObamaCare, that includes the same level of revenue generated from ObamaCare and, in fact, would not even balance in 10 years, if not for the Affordable Care Act.”

“So here they’re running around the country on the one hand, saying let’s get rid of the Affordable Care Act. And yet they passed the budget that only comes to balance because of it. Now that’s misleading and that’s a hoax. And they should explain that to the American people, how you’re trying to do two things at one time,” Van Hollen added.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.