Reminder: Lawler proudly voted for the biggest cut to Medicaid in American history TWICE
Apparently slashing his constituents’ health care wasn’t enough for Mike Lawler, because now he’s calling the health care providers in his district liars on national television. Classy stuff, Mike.
During an appearance on MSNBC this morning, Lawler quickly dismissed warnings from local health care providers concerned about cutting services after his vote to pass nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts – opting instead to accuse these hospitals and doctors of “parroting talking points” and lying about the devastating Medicaid cuts hitting their communities:
Scarborough: Montefiore Nyack Hospital is already saying because of that vote, because of these cuts, they’re going to have to cut back services. They’re going to have to cut staff. They’re going to have to cut care. Same thing with Westchester Hospital. Hospitals across your district are going to have to cut services and care and staff members and budgets because of your vote and because of this bill that passed. That’s what they’re saying.
Lawler:What they’re parroting is the same talking points being put out by the state and by the hospital associations.
Scarborough: You know their business better than they know their business? Congressman, you can keep talking if you want to, but are you saying you know their business? You know doctors’ business, you know hospital administrator’s business, better than they know their own business? Is that what you’re telling us here?
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi: “Local health care providers are panicking because their patients’ lives are on the line, and Mike Lawler’s first reaction is to call them liars. He has no business calling himself a leader.”
