Donald Trump’s recent nomination of Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) for Secretary of Health and Human Services was depressing enough. Besides being a real misogynist when it comes to health care and women’s bodies, he’s also the poster boy for anti-affordable care act and the privatization of Medicare. Senator Bernie Sanders wants every older person who voted for Trump on the promise that he would leave their health care alone to know—Donald Trump lied to you and isn’t even pretending he’s going to do anything but make you pay for your meds.
"Now, he has nominated a person for secretary of Health and Human Services, Rep. Tom Price, who has a long history of wanting to do exactly the opposite of what Trump campaigned on," Sanders said. "Rep. Price has a long history of wanting to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. What hypocrisy!"
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"Mr. Trump needs to tell the American people that what he said during the campaign were just lies, or else appoint an HHS secretary who will protect these programs and do what Trump said he would do," he said.
I want to have empathy for the people duped by Donald Trump, who will now find themselves looking up cat food prices and googling free clinics in their areas, but I’m very angry right now. There are millions of seniors who voted against Trump and other Republicans this November, and they made the right decision, and they are going to pay for the fucking morons in Kentucky who couldn’t be bothered with realizing that Obamacare and Kynect were the same goddamn thing.