Trumpcare: The Most Unpopular Bill in Three Decades
Axios: The most unpopular bill in three decades
The Republican health care effort is the most unpopular legislation in three decades — less popular than the Affordable Care Act when it was passed … It's rare for Congress to move ahead with legislation when the signs are this clear that the public doesn't want it.
It's no surprise the bill is so unpopular – Trumpcare is nothing but a billionaire's tax cut on the backs of everyone else.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: The bill is not only "a vicious assault on Americans' health care security," but it's also "a massive transfer of wealth from workers to Wall Street."
Trumpcare means:
- Higher Costs – Trumpcare forces families to pay much higher out-of-pocket health care costs, including deductibles.
- Less Coverage – Trumpcare will take away health care from 22 million hard-working Americans.
- Key Protections Gutted – Trumpcare would gut Essential Health Benefits, meaning soaring costs for Americans with pre-existing conditions and reinstating the dreaded lifetime and annual limits on care.
- A Crushing Age Tax – Trumpcare forces Americans aged 50-64 to pay premiums five times higher than what others pay for health coverage, no matter how healthy they are.
- Steals from Medicare – Trumpcare shortens the life of the Medicare Trust Fund and ransacks funds that seniors depend on to get the long-term care they need, all to give tax cuts to the wealthy.
It's time for Republicans in Congress to abandon their cruel and misguided plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, and work with Democrats to lower health care costs for everyone, everywhere in America.