It's a constellation of reforms that need to be put in place because there are millions of Americans right now who are unable to gain the kind of coverage that they want.
Patty Murray
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Patty Lynn Murray is a United States Senator from Washington, serving since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, she has held various leadership positions in the Senate, including serving as the Senate's first female President pro tempore. Throughout her tenure, Murray has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and women's rights, advocating for policies that support working families and promote economic growth.
your budget proposals would deny preventive and primary care benefits to millions of women nationwide.
I think what we need to be talking about in terms of a health system is the constellation of reforms.
Secretary Price, you have denied that your budget includes severe cuts to Medicaid for millions of children, pregnant women, veterans, people with disabilities, and low-income seniors.
It seems to me, watching this, that this is just another way the Administration is balancing its budget on the backs of veterans in need.
If you could provide us quarterly updates to this committee regarding the department-wide response to groundwater contamination, I would really appreciate it.
This is something that I think we need to continue to focus on, to make sure that we have a strong military in the future.
I will not accept giving benefits and then taking 94 percent of them away. That is ridiculous.
We have a responsibility to our constituents to ask questions, to offer amendments, to be a part of that process particularly when millions of Americans are going to lose their coverage, pay higher costs, and feel the impact of that.
We have no idea. We have not seen it. The people we represent do not have any idea.
I will just say we are really appalled that this is being done in secret, and I hope you pass that onto your colleagues.
If you do, if you drop your efforts to sabotage the healthcare system and enact Trumpcare, and if you are ready to tackle the challenges by bringing down the healthcare costs for families, we are at the table.
I really hope that instead of working to jam Trumpcare legislation through, according to an independent CBO analysis, is a direct threat to the lives, and health, and financial security of millions of people.
I cannot say how strongly enough, how unacceptable this is, and I will be very loud and vocal about this.
I really do appreciate you having this hearing, prescription drug prices is extremely important.
It unfortunately sounds like this legislation is based on the very same principles as the disastrous House Trumpcare bill.
I think people in the country are deeply worried about what is happening to the healthcare system.
The fact that a Republican Trumpcare bill is going to be jammed through here in a few weeks without any look at it by this committee, to me, is really appalling.





