{"id":1615,"date":"2017-07-13T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/13\/tom-perez-on-new-senate-health-care-repeal-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:27:00","slug":"tom-perez-on-new-senate-health-care-repeal-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-new-senate-health-care-repeal-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Perez on New Senate Health Care Repeal Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In response to the release of the latest Republican health care repeal bill, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every time the GOP takes their cruel bill back to the drawing board, they just come back with a different way to harm millions of hardworking families.&nbsp;The fact remains: Kicking &nbsp;people off their insurance and telling older, sicker and low-income Americans they can pay more for less isn&rsquo;t a health care plan, it&rsquo;s a moral abomination. And now, instead of facing their own constituents over August recess, Republicans plan to stay in Washington until they can ram their disastrous plan through the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats believe health care is a right, not a privilege. And we will not rest in holding Republicans accountable for this assault on the American people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the Senate bill:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Includes the same devastating cuts to the Medicaid program that will cause millions fewer people to have insurance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Could drive up premiums for sicker Americans and charge older Americans five times more than younger people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Includes giveaways to insurers and lets them sell skimpier plans that do not meet ACA requirements, including preventive care and mental and substance abuse treatment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incorporates Ted Cruz&rsquo;s disastrous idea that would send individual insurance markets into a death spiral, while middle-class families with medical needs could see their out-of-pocket costs soar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looks out for the wealthy with the expansion of tax-advantaged health savings accounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defunds Planned Parenthood for one year and allows insurers to sell plans that don&rsquo;t cover maternity care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the release of the latest Republican health care repeal bill, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement: &ldquo;Every time the GOP takes their cruel bill back to the drawing board, they just come back with a different way to harm millions of hardworking families.&nbsp;The fact remains: Kicking &nbsp;people off their insurance <\/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-1615","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 - 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