President Barack Obama shouldn’t apologizing for the failures of Obamacare. Instead, according to MSNBC host Ed Schultz, conservatives should be offering an apology.
On Monday night’s episode of The Ed Show, Schultz lit into opponents of the Affordable Care Act for ‘lying’ about it and not presenting alternatives to the President’s healthcare law if they hate it so much.
“The apology should be coming from the conservatives,” Schultz declared about the nation’s healthcare woes. “The conservatives should be apologizing for having no plan and no option for any of the people you’ve just seen illustrated on this program, and they should be apologizing to the 50 million Americans who have been without insurance because, damn it, they’ve been sick!”
Schultz also said Obama’s apology during his interview with Chuck Todd wasn’t really an apology after all. The liberal host regurgitated the Obama administration’s talking point that people who had their insurance plans cancelled will be better off because they’ll get better coverage under the ACA than under their old plans.
“Really? He’s apologizing?” the host asked. “That’s kind of not how I saw the interview. The way I saw the interview was the President was apologizing for the inconvenience that people are having to go through to actually go to a policy where they’re going to get some real coverage.”
But what Schultz didn’t point out during his tirade is that conservatives have presented alternatives to Obamacare. Reps. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) Tom Price (R-Ga.) and Paul Broun (R-Ga.) have also proposed other versions of comprehensive healthcare reform. And the Republican Study Committee put out “The American Health Care Reform Act.”
Plus, back in 2008, GOP presidential nominee John McCain put forth a health care plan during his campaign.
It is true that these alternatives have received little press or attention, but they do exist, and it’s disingenuous of Schultz to claim otherwise.
(h/t Newsbusters)
