1: ALERT: Trump admin is using fake #'s to flip moderates—
saying people can be moved from Medicaid to Cruz plans without harm. Via @WSJ:
2: They flipped Portman yesterday. Cassidy? Gullible as ever.
3: Here's the pitch: subsidies can be used to ”wrap around" Cruz plans to lower the insane cost-sharing. Via @StevenTDennis:
4: Look at the pitch again. They're *slashing* #1 and #2—and #3 does not come close to making up for it.
5: Here's the extreme cost-sharing that low-income people moving from Medicaid to Cruz plans would face. Savage.
6: Here's another look at it. Check out the left side of the red line. Via @LorenAdler:
7: CBO concluded that low-income people would look at this and rationally decide not to buy this junk.
8: Here's the Trump official's desperate, transparently phony pitch: I'll give you magical waivers to solve everything.
9: Are you kidding me? Waivers must be budget neutral. There's no extra $$ there.
10: In fact, since private insurance is much more expensive than Medicaid, the funding hole is even worse.
11: This is not hard. Repeat after me: much less $$ is much less $$—no matter how you slice it.
12: Collins seems to be the only moderate who understands all of this—even though it's breathtakingly simple.
13: With no hearings, no full CBO score, no vetting of magical waivers and fake numbers, Senators will vote next week on *something*. END
