signed into law, grassley voted 12 times to overturn it. in 2009 with the bill was being negotiated, he perpetuated the deaf panel lie about an end of life counseling profession in the bill. and he put his own face and voice to the pool the plug on gram ally. we should not have a government program that determines you re going to pull the plug on grandma. now, we know republicans didn t really want to replace the aca because when they had the house, the senate and the white house under trump, they couldn t do it. 31 million americans are enrolled in the affordable care act. 55% of americans support it. and of course, republicans have never had a plan to replace it. so it s actually not surprising that senator grassley said this last week at a town hall. i m wondering if the
grandma line. we should not have a government program that determines you re going to pull the plug on grandma. now, we know republicans didn t really want to replace the aca because when they had the house, the senate and the white house under trump, they couldn t do it. 31 million americans are enrolled in the affordable care act. 55% of americans support it. and of course, republicans have never had a plan to replace it. so it s actually not surprising that senator grassley said this last week at a town hall. i m wondering if the republicans, even the republicans get back in power, is that again going to come up to be repealed and if you do, what is the republican plan to provide affordable health care for my children? it s not repealing the affordable care act. so are you saying i m saying i would, we re not going to repeal the affordable care act.
ingredients and talked about this kind of subsidy would lead to pulling the plug on grandma. there s some fear because the house bill, there s tussling for end of life. and from that standpoint, you have every right to fear. we should not have a government program that determines you re going to pull the plug on grandma. no, government certainly shouldn t be doing that, but it s not and it doesn t do it any more under this law. grassley pushed those claims while republicans spent a lot of energy on this. indeed, one count has it at over 70 failed repeal votes. the law does provide health care to millions, over 200,000 people are on some version of obamacare subsidy or support for health care in iowa, which is the state grassley represents. that speaks to something that happens when politics meets
we are back with pulitzer prize winning columnist, george will. his latest book american happiness and its discontents has essays on politics and culture. including periods about 2008 which overlaps with the transformation of the republican party as it embraced extremism, conspiracy theories and ultimately this obsession with one person, donald trump but is argued partially in the book, much of this has its antecedents before obama s presidency as it continues on today. i can t trust obama. he s an arab. no, ma am. there are people that a program that determines you pull the plug on grandma. boycott hollywood!
she wrote a comment, made a statement on her facebook page. she called this health plan of the president s downright evil. she said, quote, the america i know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with down syndrome will have to stand in front of obama s death panel. what we often ran into was, if the other side couldn t win on the facts, they would just invent the facts. death squads is a great example. there were no death squads in the bill. the president would try as best he could that those things weren t true but it stale became part of the debate. what you can t do, or you can but you shouldn t do, is start saying things like we want to set up death panels to pull the plug on grandma. i mean, come on. the affordable care act became the proximate focus of anger and dissatisfaction at government. and the tea party really became