Murray Statement on CBO Score for Trumpcare: “A Broken Promise to Every Patient and Family”

New CBO report—House GOP bill will result in 14 million more people uninsured in 2018—rising to 21 million in 2020, 24 million in 2026

Murray: “The facts are in, and Democrats will make sure Republicans can’t hide from them”

(Washington, D.C.) – Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the House Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act:  

“Today’s report is just as terrible as Republicans knew it would be—and it’s also a broken promise to every patient and family who listened when President Trump and Republicans said that their reckless, mean-spirited bill would somehow provide better coverage—for everyone—at lower cost. It’s astounding that any elected official could support an effort to throw tens of millions of people off of coverage, spike premiums, gut Medicaid, target seniors for higher health care costs, and throw our health care system into chaos—not to mention what this bill would mean for women’s access to health care at Planned Parenthood. The facts are in, and Democrats will make sure Republicans can’t hide from them.”

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