Unskew the ACA!

It’s obviously not surprising that Republicans are making up various reasons to ignore the relatively positive news on health insurance enrollments. Ted Cruz actually used the phrase “fuzzy math.” (As a reminder, “fuzzy math” was the phrase George W. Bush famously used to dissemble his way past Al Gore’s wholly accurate claims about his upper-class tax cut plan.)

But here’s what’s really appalling about this — Republican politicians insulting our intelligence by pretending to care about whether the non-wealthy have health insurance. The Republican Party, from the Supreme Court to many statehouses, is engaged in a so-far successful struggle to deny Medicaid to millions of people. The de jure offers made by Republicans to the uninsured are various shades of horrible, and the de facto Republican offer to the uninsured is “nothing.” These are, in short, desperate and dishonest arguments being made by people strongly committed to restoring an awful status quo ante.

…via Shakezula , I see a perennial favorite of left critics of the ACA has logically enough made its way to Republican politicians, as Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn argues that the ACA didn’t really expand coverage…because Tennessee Republicans have refused the Medicaid expansion, and hence there hasn’t been an increase in the number of people on Medicaid. There are no words sufficient to convey my contempt for these people.