Frank Pallone: “for months President Trump and congressional Republicans have been promising that they would not cut Medicaid or…”

“for months President Trump and congressional Republicans have been promising that they would not cut Medicaid or Medicare. The reality is that Republicans are cutting both Medicaid and Medicare in this bill. They are essentially repealing parts of the Affordable Care Act. This bill will destroy the healthcare system of this country. It keeps getting worse with each GOP amendment. The GOP tax scam takes healthcare away from at least 13.7 million Americans so they can give giant tax breaks to billionaires and big corporate interests. It is a shameful reverse Robin Hood scheme. They are stealing from the American people to give to the rich. Republicans are stripping healthcare away from people by putting all sorts of burdensome and time-consuming roadblocks in the way of people just trying to get by. The vast majority of people on Medicaid are already working. This is not about work. It is about burying people in so much paperwork that they fall behind and lose their health coverage. If someone loses their health coverage through Medicaid, this GOP tax scam also bans them from getting coverage through the ACA marketplace. It is just one of the cruel ways that this bill basically repeals the ACA and makes it more difficult for people to get affordable health insurance. Now, the Republican bill also makes it more difficult for States to finance their share of Medicaid costs by preventing them from implementing new provider taxes.”