I would like to thank my friend and colleague senator hirono for her words and willingness to share how this bill, impacting millions of americans with preexisting conditions. I along with everyone else in this chamber wish her the best and speedy recovery, the people of hawaii and the people of the United States. After weeks of secret Meeting Senate republicans released their healthcare legislation last weekend in many ways it is even worse than expected. It is no wonder Senate Republicans kept this legislative malpractice hidden behind closed doors. For working families and the elderly, for the disabled, those suffering opioid addiction, this legislation is a death sentence. This bill takes a machete to medicaid. It abandons people with preexisting conditions, punishes grandma and grandpa who live in a nursing home including 25,000 seniors, Nursing Homes who are on medicaid. It causes the single greatest rollback of civil rights for people with disability in a generation, by taking a
I would like to thank my friend and colleague senator hirono for her words and willingness to share how this bill, impacting millions of americans with preexisting conditions. I along with everyone else in this chamber wish her the best and speedy recovery, the people of hawaii and the people of the United States. After weeks of secret Meeting Senate republicans released their healthcare legislation last weekend in many ways it is even worse than expected. It is no wonder Senate Republicans kept this legislative malpractice hidden behind closed doors. For working families and the elderly, for the disabled, those suffering opioid addiction, this legislation is a death sentence. This bill takes a machete to medicaid. It abandons people with preexisting conditions, punishes grandma and grandpa who live in a nursing home including 25,000 seniors, Nursing Homes who are on medicaid. It causes the single greatest rollback of civil rights for people with disability in a generation, by taking a
I would like to thank my friend and colleague senator hirono for her words and willingness to share how this bill, impacting millions of americans with preexisting conditions. I along with everyone else in this chamber wish her the best and speedy recovery, the people of hawaii and the people of the United States. After weeks of secret Meeting Senate republicans released their healthcare legislation last weekend in many ways it is even worse than expected. It is no wonder Senate Republicans kept this legislative malpractice hidden behind closed doors. For working families and the elderly, for the disabled, those suffering opioid addiction, this legislation is a death sentence. This bill takes a machete to medicaid. It abandons people with preexisting conditions, punishes grandma and grandpa who live in a nursing home including 25,000 seniors, Nursing Homes who are on medicaid. It causes the single greatest rollback of civil rights for people with disability in a generation, by taking a
Republicans and the majorityir about their effort to rip apart our Health Care System and jeopardize the protections for people with preexistinghrow of millions of people off of their this now, it is deeply troubling ates this point that we have less exd than 24 hours to the expected vote come we dont even know which version of repeal republicans hope to pass. The do republican support the Better Care Reconciliation Act, a bill that according to the Congressional Budget Office would cause 22 million more americans to become uninsured, which would drive up Health Care Costs and dismantle the Medicaid Program. Do they support the ted cruz amendment which would bring back junk insurance plans that offer virtually no protection and drive up outofpocket costs for Vital Services . Or will they rally behind their backup option, a plan to repeal the Affordable Care act and replace it with nothing . Thats nothing. An approach that would add 32 million more americans to the ranks of the uninsure
Once they walk in the door, drink from the fire hose. Whether democrat or republican really doesnt make much differ. 45 trillion Dollar Agency to run and a lot going on. Big issue of repeal and replace, what do we do, nothing like that i saw in aviator 2001 one of the top National Issues. Im not sure where they are going with it but secretary price who i have known for years, these guys have, too, new administrator going to be they are way ahead of the game. What are they talking about now, my experience 88 transition a long time ago. Im actually 106 years old. We didnt do anything. We got people confirmed. Nobody sat around anderson talked about health care policies. I talked to Tommy Thompson, president bush, wanted to do it, privatizing medicare, medicaid in may. Gave a list of things to do, changed the name of the agency just to make people mad. Through part d maybe in may. December ive never seen anything like this. This is way out of the normal time schedule in my experience. Do