PELOSI — Transcript of Press Event Joining ‘Save My Care’ Bus Tour to Speak Out Against GOP #PayMoreForLess Bill
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Pelosi Transcript of Press Event Joining 'Save My Care' Bus Tour
to Speak Out Against GOP #PayMoreForLess Bill
Leader Pelosi's Opening Remarks:
"Thank you very much,
"It's my honor to join Democratic Leader of the Senate
"The demonstration of your support, the stories that you tell are so eloquent. The story that the CBO told yesterday was so clear. Under the Affordable Care Act, the number of people without insurance was cut in half. Under the proposal of the
"The Hippocratic oath is: do no harm. They're doing harm with this bill, not only if it passes - which hopefully it will not - but in the fear that it is instilling in people. Stress is the last thing anyone needs when they are sick. And this bill is causing great concern, stress and fear for so many people. So, 'Save My Care' - I love the title because it's about each individual's possession of their care, their health, their future.
"We know what the CBO said yesterday - stunning to think that they're taking
"Ironically, many of the people who will be deprived of health care are people who live in rural parts of our country, are older Americans, people who have issues relating to addiction in their families, the list goes on. It's very, very troubling. It's very, very cruel. It must be stopped. And this bus - which we were going to greet outside but for the weather - the weather did not hold them back.
"So, I'm not supposed to introduce the next person, but I certainly want to welcome, in terms of the bus trip, but I certainly want to welcome the Democratic Leader of the
Leader Pelosi's Closing Remarks:
"Let us thank
"Thank you all very much for coming."
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Q:
Leader Pelosi: No. Not if the savings is coming from not having investments in health care. 24 million people are being cut off from health care. They're saving - what is their figure" -
So while they want to show, that they have some savings, of course you can savings if you cut off millions of people from care. This isn't about politics, it's about values. It's personal, but it's also about values.
The Speaker has said this bill, which cuts off 24 million people, is an 'act of mercy'. He called the bill an 'act of mercy'. How could it be an act of mercy to cut off people from care when it is a matter of life and death" When it is a matter of jobs in your community" When it's about addressing the opioid and other addiction epidemics that we have in our country" That is not savings to our economy and will really end up being a cost to our economy because people will be sick, jobs will be lost and just what Paula and others had talked about, people won't be working and bringing money to the economy.
It's almost in the realm of silly. The
But they're now in a debate as to whether it's TrumpCare or RyanCare, they're just trying to label it on someone else. I know that the Leader would probably want to add to that...
Leader Schumer: I'll just say this: tell the 64-year old who makes
Leader Pelosi: And the other part of it is - it's so funny, I didn't finish my irony earlier when I said that so many people in rural America, older Americans, working class, blue collar, all the rest, will lose benefits. But that wealth will be transferred - and most of them, many of them are in red states. So this is a transfer of wealth from red areas to blue areas, where these wealthy families live.
So, explain that to your constituents, why don't you" They should just pull the plug on this bill. Pull the bill - that's our message to the
First of all, they didn't even know what they were talking about. Some of them are surprised about the CBO report. They didn't even have a clue.
So, they either don't know or they don't care. So, let's assume that they do care. The more they know, the sooner they'll pull the plug on this bill. And we can get down to making progress in terms of improving the quality of health and health care in our country.
Q: So the bill is a budget bill, which it only needs the majority of the
Leader Schumer: Well - and this is true in the
Until you take repeal off the table, we can't support this because it does so much damage. It's sort of interesting following up on what the Leader said, no one wants to claim this bill. If it's so good, why aren't they rushing to have their names on it" Trump wants to call it RyanCare. Ryan wants to call it TrumpCare. It's classic Abbott and Costello. If it's so good why don't they want their names on it?
Leader Pelosi: Yes ma'am.
Q: Yes and thank you for doing this. I'm wondering if, umm, you know even
Leader Pelosi: Well, let me just say this because, and I know that the Senators would want to address this as well. Here's the thing: there hasn't ever been a perfect bill, so that is like the oxymoron of all time. Does anybody know of one" And there hasn't been any bill of this magnitude that has not been changed:
One of the reasons the CBO report doesn't show as many people on it in the marketplace is because they had, because employers did not drop the policies of their workers. There was an assumption that employers - if this is there, then we don't have to give them health insurance, but they continued to do so. So that's a very positive reason why there aren't as many more people on it. We had a bill that was a compromise, as you see the implementation you can make improvements always but the fact is also that they also intervened in the implementation of the bill. They intervened by making false representations and mischaracterizations, false representations and misrepresentations about the bill. But we can always subject any legislation we pass to scrutiny in terms of the implementation beyond.
And what's interesting about it is, I don't know exactly the number but I will later today, you know, they're telling their people we had a, what, a 1,200 page bill and they have a 67 page bill" There are probably over 800 pages of the Affordable Care Act that is part of their bill. They didn't tell their Members that. They didn't tell their Members that. But what they put in is so bad because it negates so much that is good in the rest of the bill. But they carried a great deal of the Affordable Care Act with them.
Leader Schumer: I'll just make one quick comment then we'll take just one more. We have said to our Republican colleagues, take repeal off the table and we'll sit down and improve the Affordable Care Act. I have a lot of ideas, so do many of my colleagues,
So Governors around the country are going to have to decide to cut people off of
We need, right now, to have them stop talking about repealing and doing, and increasing insurance premiums. And then, we can sit down and talk about an appropriate bipartisan solution, just the way we did in
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