F**king Unbelievable: The GOP Shoves Health Care Through the House: The Daily Show

Everyone has seen it by now, but if case
you had, uh, bad eyesight, then I've got some bad news
about your health care.
President Trump celebrating the House successfully passing
the Republicans' latest plan to repeal... replace Obamacare.
What we have is something very, very,
incredibly well-crafted.
How am I doing, am I doing okay? I'm president.
Hey, I'm president. Can you believe it, right?
-Yeah. -(audience groaning, booing)
Even...
even Donald Trump can't believe he's president.
I guess he does relate to the American people after all.
You know? I can't believe that guy is president.
I know, it's crazy. It's so crazy.
And today was crazy. No doubt about it.
Because after seven years of foreplay
and with just two votes to spare,
the House Republicans successfully passed a bill
to repeal Obamacare.
Which could mean more than 20 million Americans
would no longer have health insurance.
People with preexisting conditions could see
a massive spike in their premiums.
Although the truth is we don't know any of this for sure.
Why? Because Republicans passed this bill
without an official scoring of its costs from the CBO.
So the true effects of the bill could be anything.
Hell, your baby could have to do its own C-section
from the inside. You don't know.
And you know what,
that's the problem with politics these days.
Republicans cared less about the bill's quality
than the optics of getting a bill passed.
And we know that they didn't like this bill,
because they kept on telling us.
It's not the most perfect bill, but nothing's gonna be perfect,
so let's move it forward, let's get it to the senate.
Is it perfect? No, it is not.
I've made my peace saying, "Okay, it's the best
that we can get out of this congress at this time."
We think that it's a-a step in the right direction.
I've been working with my senate colleagues
to hopefully improve it in the senate.
Again, I'm just very anxious to see the senate
get to work on this same project.
It's something that, uh, we can live with.
Oh, something we can live with?
That's a particularly poor choice of words.
Right now there's someone with cancer watching that going,
"Who the (bleep) is 'we'?"
Because the big difference between the bill
the House passed today and the one that failed
six weeks ago is that this one is even worse
for people who are most vulnerable.
Basically, Republicans said,
"Hey, all the poor and sick people,
"what do you need?
"All right.
Psych."
REPORTER: The current bill phases out the expansion
of Medicaid and allows states to opt out of the requirement
that insurers cover basic health services
like maternity care, mental health treatment,
and even ambulances.
Yeah. (chuckles) How insane is that?
Under this bill, if you live in a red state,
ambulances might not be a basic benefit anymore.
Now when you get injured, you get picked up by a taxi
with a bachelorette party on the roof.
That's all that's gonna happen. They'll be...
(whooping)
You'll be like, "Please, I've got to get to the hospital."
"Yeah, but, first, can we stop by McDonald's?
I think I'm gonna throw..." (retching)
And, you know what, it gets even worse, because, right now,
Obamacare doesn't let insurers raise rates
for people with preexisting conditions.
But with this bill, their rates could go way up.
And if people can't afford those higher rates,
they get thrown into something called a high-risk pool,
which sounds less like an insurance plan
and more like something you'd find
in Charlie Sheen's backyard.
And now, and now, Republicans will tell you
that they'll subsidize these high-risk pools enough
so that everyone in them can afford health care.
The only problem is math.
The GOP bill calls for $8 billion over five years
to fund these high-risk pools.
The $8 billion is essentially a drop in the bucket.
REPORTER: We're looking at a graphic there of the $8 billion
that caused a lot of the Republicans who were noes
to turn to yes. And you see that that still leaves
a huge shortfall of about $192 billion.
Yeah. I'm just gonna put it out there.
If you're short by $192 billion,
just say you don't have the money, right?
That's not being short. You can't be like,
"Oh, hey, man, I left my wallet at home.
"Can you spot me $192 billion?
Yeah, I'll Venmo it. I'll Venmo it back."
You can't be short by the GDP of Greece.
That is not short. That's not the money.
And, by the way, I love that this proposal
is called the Upton Amendment.
They might as well call it the Kate Upton Amendment,
because there's barely any coverage.
And... and with the two parties in total disagreement,
what would be a good way to figure out
how much of a disaster for the American people this bill is?
Well, I mean, you could ask any of the organizations
that know anything about health care,
old people, or sick people what they think of it.
REPORTER: The plan has been panned
by most major interest groups,
including the American Medical Association,
the AARP, and the American Cancer Society.
The American Lung Association, the Heart Association,
the Diabetes Association, the March of Dimes...
The National Rural Health Association
opposed to this bill. The American Thoracic Society
in oppose to this bill.
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
The National Organization for Rare Disorders
and the National Coalition for Women
and... with Heart Disease.
Almost every group is against this bill.
The American Cancer Society, the AMA,
the AARP, the AA, double batteries,
AAA, Triple H,
H&M, and Preparation H.
And they know a pain in the ass when they see one.
You know, there are many people
who are gonna be mad about what happened today.
And one group that should be more pissed off than any other
is Trump voters.
Because we all remember
what we heard from Trump during the campaign.
TRUMP: And when you're a star, they let you do it.
-You can do anything. -BILLY BUSH: Whatever you want.
TRUMP: Grab 'em by the pussy.
No. No, no. No, no, sorry. No, not that one.
The stuff about health care.
Everybody's got to be covered.
Everybody's gonna be taken care of
much better than they're taken care of now.
We're gonna have great plans.
They're gonna be much less expensive and...
Preexisting conditions are in the bill,
and I mandate it, I said it has to be.
You'll get your doctor,
you'll get everything that you want to get.
It'll be unbelievable.
Yeah, Donald Trump is right.
What happened today was (bleep) unbelievable.

F**king Unbelievable: The GOP Shoves Health Care Through the House: The Daily Show

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