Governors Nationwide Warn of the Disastrous Consequences the Senate Repeal Bill will Have on the Middle Class, Children, the Most Vulnerable, and State Budgets (NASHVILLE, TN) – The Senate’s repeal bill makes health care so much worse for so many people in so many ways, all to give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and big…
BREAKING NEWS: GOP Leader McConnell Admits Repeal Not Needed GOP Colleagues Echo Calls for Bipartisanship Senate Leader Mitch McConnell admitted today that the Senate will develop a bipartisan fix for health care markets under the Affordable Care Act, if they fail to repeal health care. For months, Republicans have used demagoguery about needing…
GOP HEALTH CARE REPEAL BILL BY THE NUMBERS 634,600 Tennesseans Would Lose Coverage $5.3 Billion Cut from Tennessee’s Medicaid Funding Job Losses, Premium Increases and Weakened Protections for Pre-Existing Conditions As the GOP-led Senate continues to press forward with health care repeal, a quick look at the numbers shows that the the impact on…
News Reports Make Clear: Trump Voters Most at Risk Under Health Care Repeal (NASHVILLE, TN) Reports continue to reveal an uncomfortable truth for Republican Senators: repealing health care hurts Trump voters the most. The repeal bill breaks their promises on health care. That might explain why the Washington Post wrote that polling shows…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 6, 2017 Contact: Lenda Sherrell (865) 388-9056 After Authoring Repeal Bill That Guts Protections for Pre-Existing Conditions, Senate Republicans Consider Making It Worse (NASHVILLE, TN) The current Senate Republican health care repeal bill already puts health insurance at risk for those with pre-existing conditions. Now, to appease the far right…
Senator Lamar Alexander released a statement about the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), the Senate version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on June 22, 2017 and another on the subsequent CBO score of the BCRA on June 26, 2017. The many problems with Sen. Alexander’s analysis are detailed at https://www.tnjustice.org/response-senator-lamar- alexanders-statements-bcra/. Here’s a…
Senate Republicans promised to start over and write a plan that improves people’s health care; instead, they doubled down on the failed repeal approach that puts everyone’s health care last, and tax breaks for the wealthiest first. Republicans wrote their plan in secret, have refused to hold hearings, and are rushing to force a vote…
Barbara of Crossville, TN writes: I am extremely disappointed and disheartened about Sen. Alexander's stand on the health care bill. He has supported to end the requirement that insurance companies must cover health services such as emergency dept. visits, hospitalizations, maternity and newborn care, prescription drugs, and care for the mentally ill and people with…
Congressional Budget Office: 23 Million to Lose Health Care, Increased Premiums from Republican Health Care Repeal “The health and financial security of hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans is on the line.” NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 24, 2017 –Protect Our Care Campaign Director Leslie Dach released the following statement on the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) report today…