Hillary superfan Peter Daou played the if-you-oppose-Obamacare-you-want-all-kids-and-poor-people-to-die card on Hugh Hewitt this morning, tweeting “are you really hoping for a plan that would harm the most vulnerable among us?”
Hugh – are you really hoping for a plan that would harm the most vulnerable among us? Why not push a bipartisan effort to fix #Obamacare? https://t.co/puwgcAmrUt
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) September 21, 2017
It didn’t go well. Here’s Hugh’s response…
For starters, yes, he’s an expert on this:
No. I served 18 years on public board in Orange County charged with spending cigarette tax money on health and education of children under 6 https://t.co/CfCVvao1wW
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 21, 2017
Thanks to lefty superstar Rob Reiner, no less:
It was a "Prop 10" Commission, created by @robreiner 1998 initiative. Among its many projects in Orange County: a fully staffed dental 2
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 21, 2017
And we’re talking about a lot of money directed at children:
clinic, a Center for Autism and Neurological Disorders, asthma and newborn programs etc etc. we spent about $550 million in my years on 3
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 21, 2017
the nine member board. I am firmly convinced that subsidiarity applied to health care will benefit the poorest the most and believe @Avik 4
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 21, 2017
is completely right re Medicaid today: a massive failure and often a fraud –paper coverage but no access. That is why, to illustrate w/ 5
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 21, 2017
just one example, we built (and, crucially, endowed) the Healthy Smiles Clinic https://t.co/1fB8DJAR1g because CA Medicaid Dental just 6
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 21, 2017
wasn't getting poor kids appointments with pediatric dentists. The reimbursement rate far too low. Dentists can't make up losing $ on every
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 21, 2017
patient via volume. Public health needs a re-imagining best done at county level. And #GrahamCassidy will allow that to happen.
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 21, 2017
Exactly.
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