Bill Cassidy is on MSNBC (with Ali Velshi) right now (3:15 pm, Monday, March 23), spouting with passion how the current GOP’s agenda — focusing on giving no-holds $$$$ to corporations, rather than working people — isn’t that.<\/p>\n
I have no reason to think Cassidy isn’t lying. Because he’s done it before.<\/p>\n
I picked up a dangerous lie Cassidy told to his constituents over the ACA, when I was delving into the Fakes of Life for my book, How I Learned The Facts of Life<\/em>. Here’s the incident:<\/p>\n Most troubling is how some politicians feel free to send letters to their constituents containing direct lies about a government program the constituents may very well depend upon.<\/p>\n One appalling example was brought to my attention by the investigative organization, ProPublica, who fact-checked politicians\u2019 letters to constituents on health care, specifically the ACA.<\/p>\n In March 2017, ProPublica reported this:<\/p>\n When Louisiana resident Andrea Mongler wrote to her senator, Bill Cassidy, in support of the Affordable Care Act, she wasn\u2019t surprised to get an email back detailing the law\u2019s faults. Cassidy, a Republican who is also a physician, has been a vocal critic.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cObamacare\u201d he wrote in January, \u201cdoes not lower costs or improve quality, but rather it raises taxes and allows a presidentially handpicked \u2018Health Choices Commissioner\u2019 to determine what coverage and treatments are available to you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n There\u2019s one problem with Cassidy\u2019s ominous-sounding assertion. It was false.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bill Cassidy is on MSNBC (with Ali Velshi) right now (3:15 pm, Monday, March 23), spouting with passion how the current GOP’s agenda — focusing on giving no-holds $$$$ to corporations, rather than working people — isn’t that. I have … Continue reading