MURPHY: GOP REPEAL PLAN “IS SCARING THE LIFE OUT OF PEOPLE IN MY STATE”
"This isn't a game. People's lives are at stake. And yet because this debate now is devoid of policy and substance and seemingly just about delivering a political victory to
"The casualness with which [
The full text of Murphy's remarks is below:
Thank you, Mr. President.
No one should normalize what's happening on the
All over the
Yesterday I saw something new in their eyes. I saw fear. I saw deep debilitating fear because they sense that we were on the precipice of doing something that they didn't think was possible. A piece of legislation passing the
I know it's very hard for people in this chamber to understand because we all have really good health care, but when you have an expensive disease or your child has an expensive disease and you lose insurance, you can't pay for it. You can sell your house. You can sell your car. You can exhaust your savings. And for some families that will cover six months' worth of expenses for their sick child. At some point, the patient dies if they don't have access to health care.
And so people are scared. They are really scared. And they're scared not just at the consequences of the House bill eventually passing, but they're also scared at the casualness with which this debate seems to treat their plight. There are rumors now that at the end of this process, we are going to vote on what has been described as a stripped-down, gutted version of the original Republican health care bill. It might have one or two provisions in it - maybe the elimination of the individual mandate, maybe the elimination of a few taxes - and the intent would be to essentially punt the more comprehensive debate about what our health care system is going to look like to a conference committee.
I want to talk about that for a few moments and what the consequences of that are. First, I want to talk about what the consequences are if that end result is achieved for the
And I disagreed with
And by the way, that is what will happen. If the
And so let's go back for a moment and remember what was in that House bill that so many of my Republican colleagues told me was deeply objectionable to them and would never get a vote on the
That bill would go to conference because the
Both
This is not a game. These stakes are big and the casualness with which the people are approaching this debate is scaring the life out of people in my state, out of parents of kids with disabilities, out of folks that are dealing with sickness and illness all across this country. It is not too late. We don't have a communicable disease, we are not going to physically harm
It is time to abandon this Republican-only approach--come work with
I yield the floor.
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