On the recordJune 21, 2017
Mr. President, I am very pleased to follow my colleague from New Hampshire, Senator Hassan. She said it very well. This is an extraordinarily important part of the debate. A Senate vote on TrumpCare is now days away, and that is the case even though the bill remains hidden in the Senate shadows. I am here tonight with my colleagues to try to shine some light on the extraordinary harm TrumpCare is going to do to women's health across the country and also to call on the American people to stand up and say, and say loudly, that this is wrong--wrong because it would be a partisan process that takes away important healthcare rights from women across this country. First, TrumpCare says that health insurance in America ought to be based on what men need and what women need ought to cost extra. You look back a few years to when the Affordable Care Act set in stone guaranteed insurance benefits to protect everybody who shops on the open market, the private open market, regardless of their gender, no price gouging women just because they are women. Now, however, the Republican plan lets States hack away at those essential health benefits, and it always seems that maternity care is the first benefit that then gets cut. If TrumpCare goes through, what will happen in America is insurance companies will carve maternity care out of the plans they offer on the open market.…
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