Schumer Remarks on Senate GOP’s ‘Meaner’ Healthcare Bill
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Okay. I want to thank both of them, our ranking members on HELP and Finance, for the fabulous job that they are doing.
Now, when the House passed their healthcare bill, a bill that
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The bill take dollars out of healthcare for millions of Americans and puts them right back in the pocket of the wealthy. It cuts healthcare for those who need it most, just to give a tax break to those who need it least.
First it will cause healthcare costs for middle class and working families to go up. By cutting back tax credits and making Americans pay an even bigger percentage of their income for their premiums. They're going to send costs soaring.
Second, the bill will kick millions off Medicaid. By making even deeper cuts than the House bill. If you're a middle class family with a loved one in a nursing home, the cost of that care is going to go up.
Third, it abandons people with preexisting conditions, putting at dire risk maternity care, mental health coverage, by allowing states even more latitude to get out of covering essential health benefits.
Fourth, it defunds
The president has said that the
Somewhere in America, Mr. President, there's a family, who takes a trip each Friday to visit grandma, or grandpa at a nursing home, who sacrificed all of their savings to pay for their healthcare until they had no more savings.
And now they rely on Medicaid to help pay the cost of long-term care in the nursing home. Somewhere in America,
Somewhere in America, there's a parent, whose child has cancer. The mother and father who stay up late at night worried that their insurance will not be available or run out before their family needs it most. In that America that my Republican friends envision, with this healthcare bill, those Americans, and many more beside, might not get the coverage they need.
We live in the wealthiest country on earth. We're proud of it as we should be. But surely, we can do better than what the Republican healthcare bill promises. Every American should be asking their Republican Senators one simple question this weekend: why did the wealthy deserve a tax cut more than we deserve healthcare?
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