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John Oliver on GOP Health Bill: Some GOP Senators Think It’s Not Harsh Enough

‘Of course, Ted Cruz is in that group’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

OLIVER: "And to be clear, those cuts will have massive impact. Right now, Medicaid covers 20 percent of all Americans, 49 percent of births. 60 percent of children with disabilities, and 64 percent of all nursing home residents. So, unless you are a professional beach volleyball player with a vasectomy, who is estranged from his family and who plans to jump into a volcano at age 35, you or someone you know desperately needs these services. Now, you may have heard some Republicans have come out against this bill in its form. Some because it's too harsh, but other because it is not harsh enough. And of course Ted Cruz is in that group. Of course he is. He is the only man in history whose personality somehow contracted bedbugs. But here's the thing: I would be very careful relying on those politicians to hold out. Just this morning, Rand Paul suggested he might vote for the bill if they needed him, and Ron Johnson said he wasn't a 'no,' he was just a 'not yes yet,' which isn't so much a courageous stance as it is 'not a cowardly stance yet.'"

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