U.S. Senator John Thune is receiving some flak in the media over a recent tweet. Thune says the comment he made on Twitter earlier this week was poorly worded. The tweet says six million people risk losing their health care subsidies, yet the President continues to deny that Obamacare is bad for the American people. Many reacted to the tweet, saying it’s a poor argument to say taking away subsidies is what makes the Affordable Care Act bad. Thune says the comment was misinterpreted and taken out of context. He says the point he was trying to make was that the ACA is fundamentally flawed.
“The tweet is what it is,” Thune says. “And in social media sometimes you don’t, things get interpreted differently than what was intended. But what we were simply trying to say is that this is just a broken, messed up, complicated and complex program that needs to be fixed and that you can’t fix it with one sentence.”
Thune says any efforts made in Congress to change healthcare legislation would include ways to take care of and hold harmless the people who are adversely affected by the loss of subsidies.