Jerry Nadler: “For 7 years, Republicans have talked about repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with something better. And…”

“For 7 years, Republicans have talked about repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with something better. And then in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, Republicans offered a plan that would have raised premiums, raised deductibles, and taken away health care from 24 million Americans. The Trump-Republican proposal was a cowardly cynical effort to lower taxes on the richest Americans, strip away insurance protections from hardworking families, and to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid. Their plan would make Americans pay more to get much less. When this horrible deal failed, President Trump did what he does best: he lashed out. He lashed out at the American people, threatening to stop critical cost-sharing health insurance subsidies that ensure the sickest and some of the poorest Americans can afford health care. Health care, Mr. Speaker, is not a game. It is a matter of life and death for millions of Americans. On health care and every other issue, President Trump's first 100 days have been nothing more than a string of broken promises, empty words, and extravagant lies. ____________________”