Murphy: “TrumpCare Is Here And You’re Going To Hate It”

March 7, 2017

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MURPHY: "TRUMPCARE IS HERE AND YOU'RE GOING TO HATE IT"

WASHINGTON - After House Republicans released their proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and destroy Medicaid, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday in opposition to the irresponsible plan that would prevent access to high-quality, affordable health care. Murphy argued that the plan will hurt everyone - especially low-income families and senior citizens - except for insurance companies, drug companies, and the super wealthy.

As a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Murphy has repeatedly called on Congressional Republicans to stop their dangerous crusade to repeal the ACA and to work in a bipartisan way to improve the law.

Text of the introduction of Murphy's speech is below:

Mr. President, TrumpCare is here and you're going to hate it. Seven years in the making, this replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and on a cursory overview, it appears that when you ask the question as to who gets hurt under the replacement plan, the answer is everyone with the exception of insurance companies, drug companies, and the very wealthy.

And I hope that we are able to step back and take our time to analyze what this replacement plan is going to do to Americans who badly need health care and who believed Republicans when they told them that they were going to repeal the bill and replace it with something better, who believed President Trump when he said that he was going to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something that was wonderful, that insured everybody that was insured under the Affordable Care Act and did it at lower costs.

I know that my colleagues of well-meaning in this chamber cannot read this replacement plan and understand it to do anything but strip coverage away from millions of Americans and to drive up costs for millions of Americans. There is no credible way to look at this replacement plan without seeing the devastation that will be wrought.