**Similar releases were were sent out hitting DCCC targets regardless of how they voted on the floor in May**
Americans’ Healthcare is At Risk With Republicans in Control of Congress
Senate Republicans are currently working hard to rip away healthcare from millions of Americans, a process that Speaker Ryan and his House Republican congress set into motion. The Senate’s latest healthcare repeal bill is just as heartless as previous versions and is technically an amendment to the House-passed bill that Speaker Ryan pushed through in May.
A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) reveals that this bill is as damaging for hardworking people as the House bill: it would increase costs, gut coverage for pre-existing conditions, and slash funding for Medicaid that helps support rural communities and opioid treatment. The Kaiser Family Foundation found it would allow insurers to charge older Americans up to 5 times more.
Outrageously, Republicans are now pushing for a vote on this bill even though the Congressional Budget Office announced yesterday that they will NOT have a full analysis of the repeal for weeks.
Unsurprisingly, Speaker Ryan is eager to vote for this morally bankrupt bill.
“As long as House Republicans control Congress, hardworking Americans are at risk of losing their health insurance coverage and seeing their premiums and prescription drug costs skyrocket,” said DCCC spokesperson Tyler Law. “While Democrats are having a robust debate about the best way to increase access to affordable healthcare for all Americans, Republicans are scheming about the best way to rip it away. Speaker Ryan’s already imperiled majority will pay a heavy cost for being on the wrong side of this debate.”
In the continued debate on America’s future healthcare system, it’s worth noting that Congressional Democrats are considered more trustworthy on the issue of healthcare than Congressional Republicans, by a wide 11-point margin (46%-35%). House Republicans clearly lack the credibility to continue pursuing an extremely unpopular repeal bill without facing immense backlash in the midterms.