Body. Thank you, mr. President. I yield the floor. A senator plop . The presiding officer the senator from washington. Ms. Cantwell i come to the floor tonight to raise concern about a proposed Senate Health care bill that might move through the United States senate, as my colleagues are pointing out, without hearing, without attention to the details actually, almost in secret. I guess it would be secret if we didnt know exactly what was in the house bill. It would be even more secret. People have said it will be about 80 of what was in the house bill. I can agree with President Trump. That was a mean bill. If it is just 80 mean, i can guarantee that you its still going to be mean. I say that because i have been at home listening to my constituents. They do not appreciate one bit if youre Harbor View Hospital and you are going to cut 800 million out of their budget because of the cap on medicaid and you are going to leave a hospital without resources, they are mad. If you are talking a
Here are democrat and john cornen on the proposal. Senator from minnesota. Mr. President i rise today to join my colleagues to speak out to ask for a normal process here for hearings, for debates. You and i have talked about this issue. I know you have in many good ideas. I am hopeful we can start over here with a bill that would consist of a number of changes to our existing health care system. Thats what i think we need to do instead of this repeal bill that came to us without hearings and it is just not the right way to do this. We have our health plans saying what matters here is medicaid and they are the leaders in our health care community. They are calling this bill disappointing because of the continued assistance insistence on cutting medicaid. It is for those who are most vulnerable. They have said things like the big story has been what is it going to do to medicaid but in fact what our experts in our state are saying, our health plans is that this is really more of the same
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