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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Senators Klobuchar And Cornyn On Republican Affordable Care Act... 20170623

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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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Merkley Klobuchar On Health Care 20170627

The peace of mind that they know they will get the health care that they need and that they wont go bankrupt in the process. Yet, here we are tonight debating a bill titled better care act. Better care. Has there ever been a bill in the history of the United States more perversely named than the better care act that strips care from 22 million americans . I was very struck by one equation of this bill, and that is that it provides to the richest 400 americans 33 billion over a tenyear period. Thats enough to pay for health care under medicaid for 700,000 individuals. It rips the Health Care Away from them to give 33 billion, the richest 400 families. That is obscene. That is certainly not better care. I i its hard for me to imagine that a Single Member of this body would vote to proceed to this bill, but here we are unti ....

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