Senators must oppose ‘killer’ bill

Trumpcare: This bill is a killer! Why is it that giving the extremely rich and the health care-related corporations a huge tax break is so much more important than saving the health and lives of the common folk?

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Senate's Trumpcare bill will kick 22 million people -15 million by next year - off health insurance. Our senators must vote "no."

Trumpcare will decimate Medicaid for nearly 40 million women and 50 percent of newborns. And it bars Medicaid enrollees from accessing any kind of care at Planned Parenthood health centers, which serve 2.4 million patients annually.

Trumpcare eliminates guaranteed coverage for lifesaving cervical and breast cancer screenings, abolishes comprehensive maternity care and domestic violence screenings, defunds Planned Parenthood, and makes it harder for women to access birth control and emergency contraception.

Trumpcare phases out healthcare funding for poor people, while giving over half a trillion dollars in tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy.

This bill is unfavorable to a vast majority of Americans and yet Congress will fight tooth and nail to get it passed. So much for their concerns for their constituency!

Bartley Deason,

Darby