Shea-Porter Statement on House Republican Healthcare Bill

WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) released the following statement regarding the House Republicans' newly released healthcare bill:

"House Republicans should be ashamed of their new bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would hurt New Hampshire workers and families by ending Medicaid expansion, driving up premiums, leaving fewer people with coverage than before the law passed, and setting us back in the fight against the heroin, fentanyl, and opioid epidemic. Despite months of pleas from their own constituents, who are terrified about losing their coverage, House Republicans have written a bill that shows total disregard for the people they are supposed to represent and instead bows to special interests. Unbelievably, after almost eight years, House Republicans still refuse to say how much their plan would cost and how many people it would force off their coverage - Republican leadership is trying to jam their bill through before the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office even has the chance to score it. Instead of House Republicans' backroom approach, the American people deserve an honest bipartisan debate on a bill that doesn't erase the Affordable Care Act's progress in driving the uninsured rate to the lowest on record, but instead makes needed fixes and improvements to our health care system to ensure all Granite Staters have access to affordable, quality healthcare."

Read this original document at: https://shea-porter.house.gov/media/press-releases/shea-porter-statement-house-republican-healthcare-bill