[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 109 (Monday, June 26, 2017)]
[House]
[Page H5167]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CBO SCORE
(Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute.)
Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, as many families were making their way
home or picking up children from either school or some daycare that
they had to be in, the CBO report came out on the unfortunate
representation of healthcare from the United States Senate. I think the
most striking comment to be made is that, by 2026, with this healthcare
bill of sorts, 49 million Americans will lose their insurance.
To add to the insult of those working families picking up children
and trying to make ends meet with the dinners that they will be
preparing, hoping that the Federal Government would take care of them,
the President of the United States indicated that he hopes that the
Affordable Care Act that now has helped insure millions of Americans
would crash and burn, crash and burn because he has strangled the
subsidies. He has made sure that the insurance companies do not have
stability, and he has decreased the amount of people who can get the
expanded Medicaid.
I am sad when the President of the United States who should be the
chief comforter, the person who takes care of Americans, takes great
glee that 49 million people will be thrown off of insurance, without
insurance by 2026 under TrumpCare in the House and TrumpCare in the
Senate.
Democrats know how to fix this. I would hope that the Republicans and
the President of the United States get off the special interests and
stand with the American people.
Save our healthcare. Stop taking away our healthcare.
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