Thread by @chrisjacobsHC

Will someone please ask @RepJayapal at @HouseCommerce hearing whether she has any money invested in stock funds in the TSP? Because if she does, she is personally "profiting" off of health care, through her ownership of for-profit insurers, hospitals, drug companies, etc....

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce .@RepJayapal claims her #SinglePayer bill has "cost containment provisions." Here's what @urbaninstitute said would happen to health costs under her bill -- they would go up substantially!

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute Also, @FrankPallone said in his opening statement that #Obamacare ended discrimination against pre-existing conditions. Fact check: FALSE. @AARP STILL discriminates against people with pre-ex conditions -- and has made billions doing so! thefederalist.com/2018/10/11/aar…

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP Here's the inventor of the "public option." In 2008, he said it's not a "Trojan horse" to get to single payer -- "it's just right there!"

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP Also: @RepJayapal talked of her support for including illegal immigrants in #SinglePayer. But it would go far beyond that -- foreigners could travel to the US to receive "free" health care, paid for by American taxpayers! thefederalist.com/2019/05/13/kam…

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP FACT: @NationalNurses claims notwithstanding, nothing in @RepJayapal @BernieSanders' #SinglePayer would make health care "a right." The bill says that you can get your bills paid ONLY IF YOU CAN FIND SOMEONE TO TREAT YOU... thefederalist.com/2019/04/11/sin…

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP @NationalNurses @BernieSanders .@RepAnnaEshoo obliquely gets at an important question: Why are eligible people not enrolled in coverage? Maybe because some people don't value health insurance, no matter what folks in Washington tell them to do...?

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP @NationalNurses @BernieSanders @RepAnnaEshoo .@RepShimkus makes valid point that the #Medicare program is already functionally insolvent. Only the double-counting in #Obamacare (i.e., a budget gimmick) has prevented insolvency. Why on earth is anyone trying to expand an unsustainable program? nationalreview.com/2016/05/medica…

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP @NationalNurses @BernieSanders @RepAnnaEshoo @RepShimkus .@RepShimkus also points out that #SinglePayer would FORCE doctors to perform abortions... thefederalist.com/2019/05/21/pro…

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP @NationalNurses @BernieSanders @RepAnnaEshoo @RepShimkus .@RepEliotEngel says pre-existing condition "protections" a "hallmark" of #Obamacare. Except for @AARP, which made billions denying patients with pre-existing conditions care! thefederalist.com/2018/10/11/aar…

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP @NationalNurses @BernieSanders @RepAnnaEshoo @RepShimkus @RepEliotEngel .@USRepKCastor said #Obamacare extended the life of #Medicare trust fund. That's fundamentally misleading. You can't use the same money to pay for #Obamacare and improve #Medicare's solvency. Unless of course you're @Sebelius...

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP @NationalNurses @BernieSanders @RepAnnaEshoo @RepShimkus @RepEliotEngel @USRepKCastor @Sebelius .@USRepKCastor then says she wants to try to force states to expand #Medicaid, which #SCOTUS said was unconstitutional. She doesn't want to let that silly little Constitution get in the way of expanding government!

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP @NationalNurses @BernieSanders @RepAnnaEshoo @RepShimkus @RepEliotEngel @USRepKCastor @Sebelius .@RepCardenas to GOP witness: "I was trying to have a nice dialogue with you, and you complicated your answer." Translation: "You didn't say what I wanted you to say, so I'm only going to ask questions of Dem witnesses who will echo my talking points..."

@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute @FrankPallone @AARP @NationalNurses @BernieSanders @RepAnnaEshoo @RepShimkus @RepEliotEngel @USRepKCastor @Sebelius @RepCardenas .@RepSarbanes says it's inevitable we will get to #SinglePayer system. Which is exactly what his colleague @janschakowsky said ten years ago -- that the "public option" would ultimately lead to single payer...