Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford made an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box Thursday and told this whopper about how their “big beautiful” turd of a bill is supposedly not going to take away healthcare from millions of Americans.
LANKFORD: Let me take for instance the Medicaid that everyone’s going crazy over. The Medicaid’s largest part of it. It’s just a work requirement on it.
People are screaming and saying, hey, it’s kicking people off Medicaid. It’s not kicking people off Medicaid. It’s transitioning from Medicaid to employer-provided healthcare.
So yes, we’ve got 10 million people that are not going to be on Medicaid, but they then are going to be on employer-provided healthcare.
We think that’s a better option for the taxpayer and quite frankly for their families as well.
If those people had the option of employer-provided healthcare, that would be great, but most of them don’t. From the Kaiser Family Foundation:
