The Congressional Budget Office today said the Senate Republican health care bill would kick 22 million people off their health care including throwing seniors out on the streets, and cutting off access to care for women and people suffering from the disease of addiction. Despite this news, Scott Wagner and Paul Mango are continuing to hide from the public and refusing to answer for their support of this devastating legislation.
“Paul Mango and Scott Wagner will not face the public about their support for a bill that will increase health care costs for hard working Pennsylvanians, kick 22 million people off their insurance, including seniors who will be forced out of nursing homes and out onto the streets with nowhere to turn, women who will have their access to care cut off, and people suffering from the disease of addiction,” said Beth Melena, communications director for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. “As Republican governors throughout the country are denouncing this bill, why won’t Mango and Wagner answer for their support of legislation so overtly harmful Pennsylvanians? If Paul Mango and Scott Wagner want to be governor, they owe the people of Pennsylvania an explanation.”
BACKGROUND
“The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026, a figure that is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured that the House version would create, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday. Next year, 15 million more people would be uninsured compared with current law, the budget office said.” [The New York Times, 4/26/17]