Sen. Warren Delivers Remarks on the Republican Health Care Bill
In a floor speech on Thursday afternoon, Senator
Remarks by Senator
Today, we finally got a look at the monstrosity of a bill that
Now we know the truth -
Remember - the
The
I'll tell you how: blood money.
And then they got to the real piggy bank: Medicaid. And here they just went wild.
The Republican bill claims to protect kids with disabilities by leaving them out of the calculations that decide how big the Medicaid cuts will be in each state. Now I don't know if the
Medicaid is the program in this country that provides health insurance to one in five Americans. To 30 million kids. To nearly two out of every three people in a nursing home. These cuts are blood money. People will die. Let's be very clear:
Just think about what would happen here if the Republican bill becomes law next week.
Picture a woman in her eighties who lives at home. She's shaky on her feet. She needs help preparing her meals or taking a bath, but her only income is her monthly
Without these services, this elderly woman can't live alone. So where does she turn? The usual answer would be a nursing home. But wait - Medicaid pays for most of the nursing home care in this country! But the
So what does she do? Well, she stays home without help. She can't climb the stairs any more. Her world shrinks. Eventually she falls and has to go to the hospital. The care is expensive, and she is miserable.
Finally, let's say the hospital gets her back on her feet, but there's nowhere for her to go when it's time to be discharged. So she heads back home to wait for the next fall, maybe the one that may be fatal?
In their determination to cut taxes for the rich, is this what
And it isn't just seniors who will be hit hard. How about a premature baby born with lung defects? His parents both have full-time jobs, but no matter how hard they work, no matter how many hours they put in, they will never be able to pay for the millions of dollars in surgeries, equipment, medicine, therapy that their child needs. Right now, Medicaid makes sure that kids with complex medical needs have coverage for feeding tubes and medication and surgery and physical therapy.
But
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