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Heinrich Statement on CBO Score of Senate “Repeal and Run” Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office released its estimate of the Senate Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act:

“Today’s score from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms how disastrous repealing the Affordable Care Act without a replacement plan would be for American families. President Trump and Majority Leader McConnell are learning the exact wrong lesson from all of this. Instead of working together to make pragmatic improvements to health care, they are doubling down on their reckless strategy to revive a ‘Repeal and Run’ vote that would leave 32 million Americans without coverage by 2026, dismantle Medicaid expansion, and throw the whole system into chaos.

“Republicans need to stop playing Russian Roulette with our health care system. These are not hypotheticals, these are people’s lives. Republicans seem intent on ripping the rug out from under families and leaving millions of Americans to wonder ‘will they or won’t they take my health care away?’ This is not a game. This is a matter of life and death for so many and ‘we will fix it later’ just won’t cut it.

“It’s time for the Senate to get to work—Republicans and Democrats together—on actual solutions to improve our nation’s health care system. There is still time to do what is right for the American families who elected us to work together and make their lives better.”

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 For more information, please contact Latoya Veal at Latoya_Veal@jec.senate.gov or 202-224-0379.