WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the Senate Republicans’ health care bill released earlier today:
"It is painfully clear that this bill -- developed in secret, with no public input, accountability, or transparency -- was never intended to give better health coverage to more people, it was deliberately crafted to protect and increase the wealth of the few. Under this version of Trumpcare, just like the last, millions of Americans will lose health coverage, health costs will go up, and the quality of coverage will go down -- all to give the richest Americans a huge tax cut.
"It is especially perverse that Senate Republicans are paying for their tax cuts with an unprecedented gutting of Medicaid, which provides coverage for America's most vulnerable – children, seniors in nursing homes, low-income Americans, and those with disabilities.
“This bill is a shameful rejection of our most fundamental American values and it must be defeated.”