Democrats Take Aim At GOP ‘Skinny Repeal’ Health Care Plan
Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii Image by Getty Images
Hawaii senator Brian Schatz took aim at the proposed Affordable Care Act replacement advanced by Senate Republicans, calling the bill “garbage,” according to Politico.
He also trashed the so-called “skinny repeal.”
Here’s the full quote:
“The skinny bill is garbage in its own right. And the only reason people aren’t fully aware of it is because they just sprung it on us. It will trash the individual market…. They can survive a news cycle. But they will own whatever law is enacted.”
But Schatz isn’t the only Jew taking a hard line on the American Health Care Act.
Rep. Jacky Rosen, a Democrat, is expected to run against Nevada senator Dean Heller in next fall’s general election — and she is already blasting him for his stand on the health care fight.
Heller, a Republican, has stated his opposition to any bill that would slash Medicaid. But he failed to kill the GOP push that could end up with that result.
What @DeanHeller is endorsing would be a disaster: millions more uninsured, a spike in premiums & an exodus of insurers from the market. https://t.co/kJg3cEgQkP
— Jacky Rosen (@RosenforNevada) July 26, 2017
Contact Jesse Bernstein at [email protected] or on Twitter ,@__jbernstein
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning journalism this Passover.
In this age of misinformation, our work is needed like never before. We report on the news that matters most to American Jews, driven by truth, not ideology.
At a time when newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall. That means for the first time in our 126-year history, Forward journalism is free to everyone, everywhere. With an ongoing war, rising antisemitism, and a flood of disinformation that may affect the upcoming election, we believe that free and open access to Jewish journalism is imperative.
Readers like you make it all possible. Right now, we’re in the middle of our Passover Pledge Drive and we still need 300 people to step up and make a gift to sustain our trustworthy, independent journalism.
Make a gift of any size and become a Forward member today. You’ll support our mission to tell the American Jewish story fully and fairly.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
Join our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
Only 300 more gifts needed by April 30
