According to Michelle Bachmann, R-Minnesota, Obamacare can “literally kill."
In a speech she gave on the House floor Thursday, Bachmann asked those in Congress to “repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens."
According to the Christian Science Monitor, she went further and pleaded with her “fellow lawmakers" as if the window of opportunity was closing.
“Let’s love people. Let’s care about people," she said. "Let’s repeal it now while we can.”
She later returned to continue her tongue-and-cheek comments, calling Medicaid a “ghetto.”
According to CSM, the debate over Obama’s Affordable Care Act produced verbal jabs like Bachmann’s from both Republicans and Democrats.
Before Bachmann, there were other GOP members—like former running-mate of John McCain, Sarah Palin—who said reforms by President Obama would produce “death panels.
These “death panels” would dictate all the aspects on health care for senior citizens. The term stems from sections of the law which calls for different committees who will determine which treatments are financially responsible.
According to CSM, the renewal of spite for Obamacare might come from the 2013 budget that was passed early Thursday. The budget, for which many Republicans voted yes, includes continued funding for the Affordable Care Act. Other members of the GOP might not be taking too kindly to what they feel is betrayal from their colleagues in the House.
This is not the first time Bachmann has made bold comments about health care. During her speech at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in March, she said the government was hindering the cure of Alzheimer’s disease.
According to politifact.com, researchers said insufficient funding for research and Alzheimer’s disease itself is the reason for a non-existent cure.
In her CPAC speech, Bachmann also said that of each food stamp, 70 percent goes to “bureaucrats.”
According to Glenn Kessler, fact checker for The Washington Post, the was false.
“Remember that child’s game of telephone, in which the whispered information gets increasingly distorted? That’s what happened here,” he said.
Kessler uses a “Pinocchio” system in grading lies. He gave Bachmann his worst rating, four Pinocchios.
“There really aren’t enough Pinocchios for such misleading use of statistics in a major speech,” he said.
