Sanders slams Senate for Obamacare repeal bill
Sanders slams Senate for Obamacare repeal bill
The presidential candidate called for Senate Republicans to end their "witch hunt" against Planned Parenthood.
By Ann Marie Awad | Dec. 2, 2015 at 9:45 AM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Sen. Bernie Sanders returned to the Senate floor Tuesday with a fiery rebuke for his fellow lawmakers attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Senate Republicans are rallying behind an aggressive plan to essentially gut a large portion of Obamacare. Politico reported Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell presented a plan to his fellow GOP Senators that would gradually halt the expansion of Medicaid over the course of two years. The move would leave room for the next president to enact a new healthcare reform law.
Sanders called the proposed bill a "waste of time" on Tuesday morning, saying that the repeal package showed "how far removed the Republicans here in Congress are from the realities of American life and the needs of American people."
"When you throw 17 million people off health insurance, people will die because they don't go to a doctor when they should, they don't get into the hospital when they should," said Sanders.
Full article and video of the speech:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/12/02/Sanders-slams-Senate-for-Obamacare-repeal-bill/7741449065915/
Quote from the video at link:
"What we should be doing is expanding on the improvements of the affordable Care Act to make healthcare a right of all people."
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