--- title: Seth Meyers Spoofs Trump Health Care Bill, AHCA parody description: “Americans are being conned," Seth Meyers said about the new health care bill on The Late Show canonical: https://time.com/4764863/seth-meyers-on-trump-health-care-bill/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-05T16:29:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:18.793Z og:title: Seth Meyers Says 'Republicans are Lying Through Their Teeth' og:description: “Americans are being conned," Meyers said about the new health care bill og:url: https://time.com/4764863/seth-meyers-on-trump-health-care-bill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers Says 'Republicans are Lying Through Their Teeth' twitter:description: “Americans are being conned," Meyers said about the new health care bill twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers Says 'Republicans are Lying Through Their Teeth' About the Health Care Bill by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 5, 2017 4:29 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 5, 2017 4:29 PM UTC The House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that could dramatically [change health care ](http://time.com/money/4766063/ahca-new-republican-health-care-bill/?xid=homepage)in the United States and according to Seth Meyers, “Republicans are lying through their teeth about the impacts of the bill on premiums and [pre-existing conditions](http://time.com/money/4763609/pre-existing-conditions-ahca/?xid=homepage).” Meyers let loose on the Republicans for passing so-called [Trumpcare](http://time.com/4766850/health-care-vote-trumpcare-bill-specifics/?xid=homepage) on Thursday night’s episode of _Late Night_ saying, “Americans are being conned, and there will be consequences for people doing the conning.” While Meyers is clearly no fan of the [new health care bill](http://time.com/4768216/health-care-bill-ahca-hillary-clinton-fight-back/?xid=homepage), he seems to believe that the actions of the House Republicans are particularly egregious in light of their complaints about how the Affordable Care Act was passed back in 2009\. Meyers showed clips of Paul Ryan railing against Democrats, criticizing them for “muscling through” a bill that “we haven’t read” and “don’t know how much \[it will\] cost.” Meyers said, “Everything that Paul Ryan claimed to hate about the Obamacare process in 2009, he’s doing now.” To make matters worse, according to Meyers, in order to pass the bill, the GOP added new provisions that made the bill even worse. As Meyers put it, “They basically took an oatmeal raisin cookie and added cilantro.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4764863/seth-meyers-on-trump-health-care-bill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4764863/seth-meyers-on-trump-health-care-bill/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Says 'Republicans are Lying Through Their Teeth' About the Health Care Bill","datePublished":"2017-05-05T16:29:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:18.793Z","description":"“Americans are being conned,\" Meyers said about the new health care bill","url":"https://time.com/4764863/seth-meyers-on-trump-health-care-bill/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Health Care","Television","politics","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4764863/seth-meyers-on-trump-health-care-bill/","name":"Seth Meyers Says 'Republicans are Lying Through Their Teeth' About the Health Care Bill"}}]}] ```