Sherrod Brown

What's happening this afternoon isn't a serious hearing--it's a talking point.

No, individuals with preexisting conditions will not be protected under the Graham-Cassidy legislation.

Medicaid keeps her alive so she is able to spend time with her kids and her grandkids.

Let me tell you about the young man in the blue shirt on the poster board behind me. This is Dr. Bignall, whom I met at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

I appreciate what Senator Bennet said a moment ago about the discussion from the other side on, their words, the failure of Obamacare.

I do think we are looking at huge transfers of funding from expansion States to non-expansion States.

The competition in State capitals from all those advocates, children's advocates, opioid treatment advocates, senior advocates, hospital advocates, how does this play out?

We know this Graham-Cassidy bill does not at all address the issue of opioid treatment, of treatment paid for by Medicaid.

Included in the BCRA was $45 billion specially requested from some of us on this committee for opioid addiction treatment.

I am proud that in my State, a Republican Governor, John Kasich, did in fact expand Medicaid; 700,000 people--700,000 people--in my State have health insurance because the Governor did that.

According to the Brookings Institution, 32 million people will lose their health coverage under it.

Mr. Chairman, I just want to interject that, comments notwithstanding from the panel, CHIP expires this Saturday.

So you see in Columbus and Harrisburg and Denver and Jeff City, you can see lobbyists for nursing homes fighting with advocates for children's hospitals, fighting with opioid addiction counselors for those declining dollars, those scarce…

The process that has led to this moment has been an abomination.

Once again, in the Trumpcare bill there is an attack on women's health.

This bill dismantles Medicaid as we know it.

This proposal undermines protections for the close to 600,000 people in Hawaii and 134 million people all across the country living with preexisting conditions.

This bill is an all-out assault on vital consumer protection.

The guarantee of essential benefits--gone. That means prescription drug coverage is on the chopping block.

If you are a huge corporation under our proposal and you choose to pay your workers so little that they are disproportionately forced onto government assistance, you need to reimburse American taxpayers.

It simply says that businesses that pay good wages of $15 an hour and provide benefits and do not outsource their jobs and buy American, basically, that those companies would get a tax cut.

We need to encourage companies to invest in their greatest asset, the American worker.

The latest proposal now that they floated would take away freedom the American people have to choose a retirement savings plan that works best for them.

If the President and congressional Republicans want to work together with us, as Chairman Hatch promises us, to build a tax code that puts more money in the pockets of working Americans...

Tell the barber in Dayton, OH that he has to work until he is 70.