Price: GOP is ‘Not Pulling Rug out on Health Coverage,’ Favors Magic Carpet Ride
Hearings for President-elect Trump’s cabinet are still underway and the proposed GOP repeal of the Affordable Care Act continues to be a central topic.
Discussion of the fate of American healthcare has been volleyed back and forth between the Senate and nominees, with Democrats demanding a clear answers in regard to a replacement. Today, in his hearing for secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, Representative Tom Price finally provided some semblance of clarity on the matter.
Price declared, “One of the important things that [Republicans] need to convey to the American people is that nobody’s interested in pulling the rug out from under anybody, we want everyone to get a magic carpet,” Mr. Price continued, “I can open your eyes, take you wonder by wonder, over sideways and under, on a magic carpet ride.”
The GOP’s “magic carpet” sounds like a scapegoat for a legitimate substitution for Obamacare. Repealing the current healthcare system would add $9 trillion to the federal debt, which currently stands at $20 trillion.
Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) voiced his concern stating, “I am very frightened about what you are going to do, and so are millions of Americans.” Price retorted, “It’s whole new world, a new fantastic point of view. No one to tell us no, or where to go, or say we’re only dreaming.”
Millions of Americans rely on the Affordable Care Act, and Trump has assured that he will not cut Medicare or Medicaid — something that contradicts with the current actions and sentiments of the GOP. Price insists, however, that a magic carpet will provide, “Unbelievable sights, indescribable feeling, soaring, tumbling, freewheeling through an endless diamond sky.”
It is unsure whether a magic carpet will cover preexisting conditions, but it should be noted that a magic carpet is a blanket, not a solution.
