White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney dodged a question Tuesday on how many people would lose or gain healthcare coverage if the House GOP bill replaced the Affordable Care Act.
“We’re starting to get that question a lot and the real answer is compared to what?” Mulvaney said after being asked on NBC how coverage might change.
When told the comparison should be made to the current situation, Mulvaney dodged again.
“You can’t even compare Obamacare right now because what everyone seems to want to ignore is that Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster,” he said. “I live in one of the states, for example, where we’re down to just one provider under Obamacare. If that provider leaves, our entire state loses Obamacare coverage.”
Mulvaney said on Fox News that what the new bill would fix is the difference between affordable coverage and affordable care.
“One of the main things that undid Obamacare is it wasn’t affordable care, it was affordable coverage,” he said. “You could afford to have insurance but you couldn’t afford to get sick, and that was one of the things that really went to the heart of the matter and one of the things we wanted to fix.”
“And that’s what these tax credits are for, if you get sick you can actually afford to go to the doctor,” he said.
