4 key arguments Democrats will use to attack Trumpcare
Updated by Jeff Stein Mar 7, 2017, 10:40am EST
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) says he’s “still digesting” Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare replacement bill, but he’s already found plenty he disagrees with. There’s the phaseout of the Medicaid expansion that would cut off health care to millions. There’s the cuts to Planned Parenthood, which Booker says would eradicate the sole source of preventative care and birth control for many women.
But then Booker gets to his main objection: "It’s astonishing to me you have a president promising that his health coverage will cover more people with better health care, and there’s no debating that this will cut millions out of health care,” Booker says in an interview in the Russell Senate Office Building late Monday night. “This is bad all around. It’s all kinds of bad.”
On Monday evening, House Republicans unveiled the American Health Care Act — a sprawling Obamacare replacement that aims to overhaul the health care system, primarily by offering tax credits rather than subsidies for purchasing health care.
But Democrats in both chambers of Congress say the bill — which comes into legislative existence already on life-support — is ripe to be picked apart. Four Republican senators are already wavering, saying they may not support the effort if it keeps the Medicaid phaseout.
And in three interviews Monday night, Democratic staffers in both chambers pinpointed four lines of attack on parts of the bill they think are most politically toxic:
1) The American Health Care Act would hurt Medicare
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