Katrina Vanden Heuvel: GOP Health Care Bill a ‘Betrayal’ of Trump’s Own Voters

‘Cutting health care for the rural people who voted for him’

VANDEN HEUVEL: “So stepping back apart from the transactional, this is a betrayal of Trump’s own voters if this goes through as it is, eviscerating Medicaid, cutting health care for the rural people who voted for him, for low-income people, for older people. So I think that’s something the Democrats need to expose and I think, you know, we’re sitting here 52 days from trump’s presidency. He’s tested the values of our country, the stamina of our country. A passel of broken promises. Lots of lies. One thing that I take heart from is that millions of people are engaged now. We talk about the resistance. We need to go from resistance to rebuilding, to recommitting, people running for office. I think health care becomes the issue in 2018 if we can expose the broken promises. You showed pictures of Trump saying, 'People will get better health care at low cost. I’m not going to cut Medicaid.' He’s doing that.”

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