Pelosi Statement on Updated CBO Score for House-Passed Trumpcare Bill

"Today's devastating CBO score hammers home Trumpcare's dire consequences for working families and seniors across the country.  House Republicans have tattooed themselves with a Trumpcare bill that means higher costs, 23 million hard-working Americans losing coverage, shredding key protections, a crushing age tax and stealing from Medicare.

"If House Republicans have their way, many Americans with pre-existing conditions will be pushed off their insurance and forced into high risk pools with soaring costs and frightening limits on the care they need.  Some Americans with pre-existing conditions would no longer be able to afford coverage of any kind. Trumpcare would also gut the essential health benefits for millions of Americans, meaning huge cost increases for basic coverage like maternity care, addiction and mental health treatment, and emergency services.  Under Trumpcare, after an illness or injury, many Americans will find they've been paying for health coverage that doesn't cover much at all.

"Trumpcare is a billionaire's tax cut disguised as a health care bill: one of the largest transfers of wealth from working families to the rich in our history.  Despite the pleas of families across America and the urgent warnings of almost every doctors' and patient group, Republicans are still pushing to enact this moral monstrosity.  Democrats in Congress and across the country will continue to fight with all our strength to protect seniors and hard-working families from Trumpcare."