{"id":1524,"date":"2017-06-22T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/tom-perez-on-reveal-of-senate-health-care-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T17:24:00","slug":"tom-perez-on-reveal-of-senate-health-care-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-reveal-of-senate-health-care-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Perez on Reveal of Senate Health Care Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In response to Senate Republicans finally revealing their secretly drafted health care bill, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span georgia=\"\">&ldquo;Health care is a right, not a privilege. Yet Republicans are attempting to take away health care&nbsp;from&nbsp;millions of&nbsp;Americans, causing fear and&nbsp;anxiety about their families&#39; future.&nbsp; If this bill passes, it would undermine protections for those with pre-existing conditions and reduce tax credits that would help those who need it most, leaving&nbsp;millions more with reduced coverage or higher costs. &nbsp;And on top of all that, the bill&#39;s&nbsp;consequences for women&rsquo;s health are not only mean, they&#39;re dangerous. It cuts funding for essential health services for women and could leave pregnant women without the guarantee of maternity coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span georgia=\"\">&ldquo;This bill is a cold and cruel&nbsp;betrayal&nbsp;of the American people.&nbsp;Democrats understand that health care is a right for every human being, and we will continue to fight any attempt to shortchange American families.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Senate Republicans finally revealing their secretly drafted health care bill, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement: &nbsp; &ldquo;Health care is a right, not a privilege. Yet Republicans are attempting to take away health care&nbsp;from&nbsp;millions of&nbsp;Americans, causing fear and&nbsp;anxiety about their families&#39; future.&nbsp; If this bill passes, it would undermine protections <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tom Perez on Reveal of Senate Health Care Bill - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-reveal-of-senate-health-care-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-22T17:24:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-reveal-of-senate-health-care-bill\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-reveal-of-senate-health-care-bill\/\",\"name\":\"Tom Perez on Reveal of Senate Health Care Bill - 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