As the debate over Trumpcare rages on, a dozen or so Republicans have begun to back away from the bill. The recent CBO estimate that repealing the Affordable Care Act would take health care away from 24 million Americans almost certainly has something to do with that. After all, Congress is all about self-preservation, and it's hard to keep your job when you're going back to your home district to find angry mobs of people who lost their insurance. But for every Republican who very logically can see that taking away health care from millions of people is a bad thing, there are others who are the violinists willing to keep playing as the Titanic sinks. One is the shell of the man who used to be Sean Spicer.

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Spicer has taken to one key line of debate in his press briefings recently. Namely the idea that coverage is not really coverage when deductibles for the covered are as high as they are right now. His cute, seemingly market-tested way of saying it: having a card doesn't mean you have care. Now, before you all jump down Sean's throat, this is actually a great argument. The only problem is that it's a great argument for single-payer care, not for the current Trumpcare proposal. You see, the point that care costs insured people too much would be persuasive if it was being used to defend a different plan that would cost people less. But it's not. In fact, according to the CBO, a big part of the problem with Trumpcare is that many Americans (in fact, many Trump voters) would see not just their health-insurance premiums rise dramatically in the beginning, BUT ALSO THEIR DEDUCTIBLES.

So, to review:

Sean Spicer is saying the problem with Obamacare is that even if you have insurance, it doesn't really matter if your deductibles are still so high that you can't afford to pay for care. Again, this would be a fair point if Sean were arguing for single-payer instead, or even if the CBO had found that Trumpcare made health insurance slightly more expensive, but would significantly lower deductibles for those who have it. The problem?

IT DOESN'T DO THAT. It will make health insurance more expensive AND make out-of-pocket costs higher at the doctor. Why would it do both of those things? Well, because it was a rush job that wasn't thought out and the bill calls for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax cuts for the rich.

But you know what? I'm going to give Sean a slight pass on this one. Even though what he's saying LITERALLY MAKES NO SENSE, he's working for Trump. Now, granted, he should quit that job and try to harvest what remains of his soul, but as long as he's in that role, he's going to have to say some crazy shit to try to make Trump's nonsense seem like...sense. But Congressman Kevin Brady, who chairs Ways and Means in the House, said this about the plan to repeal:

And for that, he can eat shit.

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