Editorial Boards to GOP: Stop Hurting Americans with Trumpcare

July 19, 2017
Blog Post
After every failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have made Trumpcare even worse.  Now Senate Republicans are pushing to ‘vote on the bill' next week without any details of what "the bill" is.  Regardless of what they propose, their Trumpcare bill will inevitably attack hard-working Americans with higher health costs, less coverage, and huge cuts to Medicaid. 

"I did not come to Washington to hurt people." – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito on Trumpcare

Editorial boards are calling on Republicans to drop their destructive efforts to sabotage the ACA, and work in a bipartisan manner to improve health care for everyone:

New York Times: The Trumpcare Bonfire

Washington Post: Republicans, ignore Trump's call to ‘let Obamacare fail.' Do this instead.

USA TODAY: The Obamacare repeal fiasco

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Yet another GOP health care bill bites the dust. Good

Los Angeles Times: With Obamacare repeal off the table, will Republicans start trying to actually improve healthcare?

York Dispatch: Time to revise and repair

NJ.com: Trumpcare failed, so now he owns Obamacare. Don't sabotage it

Sun Sentinel: GOP, Trump fail to trash Obama legacy

NorthJersey: Time to work with Democrats

Journal Sentinel: On health care, Republicans should work with Democrats

Star Tribune: After GOP failure, the focus should turn to fixing Obamacare

Baltimore Sun: The way forward for health care

MassLive: Time to stop the grousing, and work to fix Obamacare

Concord Monitor: It's time to cut a deal on health care

Veterans, seniors, working families and rural communities will suffer just so Republicans can hand hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the wealthiest.  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 top 1% in our history. Democrats will continue to turn up the heat against Republicans' assault on the health of seniors and working people.