With 217 votes, the Republicans passed the health care repeal in the House today. Now the bill will head to the Senate, and if passed, 30 million people will lose coverage. Not only that, the House voted to yes to the health care exemption for their coverage, which means they keep ObamaCare for themselves. Immediately after, Hillary Clinton responded by encouraging Americans to get out and "fight back." The American Health Association issued a statement stating that this bill should never have passed.
The House passes the health care bill
Many representatives admitted that they passed to repeal ObamaCare without reading the bill.
They read parts of it and felt it was a good replacement.
20 House Republicans broke with their party to vote against the American Health Care Act's passage. https://t.co/GL5bUl6dlW pic.twitter.com/XujVSQIetf
— ABC News (@ABC) May 5, 2017
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the Senate would not be as easy to pass as they want to read it, add amendments to it, and wait for the Congressional Budget Office to analyze the document. Graham expressed that President Trump celebrated a tad too early because it's possible that it won't pass in Senate.
American Medical Association responded with a desire statement
According to Occupy Democrats, the AMA released an urgent message after learning the House passed the Trumpcare bill.
Andrew Gurman, president of the AMA, said that the bill would result in million losing their health insurance. He added that the bill allows insurance providers to go back to a time where they could have sky high premiums, making coverage out of the question for millions of people.
.@VP joined @POTUS & @GOP Congressmen on Thursday immediately after the House passed a new health care bill. https://t.co/sXKq7V6abL pic.twitter.com/fwdlP5kVVW
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 5, 2017
Gurman urges the Senate to go their homework.
He begs them to research the bill and keep the poverty to middle class in mind, knowing that this plan could send 30-40 million people off insurance.
Hillary Clinton responded
Clinton has been silent for months. Just recently she has stepped out to speak out against Trump's regime. It seemed fitting that the person that helped President Obama develop the Health Care Act would speak out and give her opinion about it.
AMA Doubles Down On Obamacare Repeal Criticism After House Vote https://t.co/hAMJKoqRbN pic.twitter.com/wrfd0tBtoy
— Zesty Left Wing News (@zesty_leftwing) May 5, 2017
Hillary Clinton, who lost her bid for the White House in November, said that the Republican vote to repeal ObamaCare is "shameful, a failure, and immoral."
Hillary stated that now is not the time to sit back. The country needs to band together and resist these changes that will hurt millions of people. She urges Americans to really examine what Trump is trying to pass and to fight back.
A shameful failure of policy & morality by GOP today. Fight back on behalf of the millions of families that will be hurt by their actions: https://t.co/yPy2ZW74mw
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 4, 2017
Clinton added that Trump's camp is planning on the resistance tiring out.
This is when the battle is important, and she urged the anti-Trump resistance to keep fighting because in the end, "We will win!"
Elizabeth Warren, 'People will die under TrumpCare'
Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke out about the House passing the Trumpcare bill. She revealed that the plan would devastate millions of Americans. They would lose coverage and not be able to get treatment for life-threatening illness. The truth is she feels that this bill would kill millions of people.
Warren shouted to a crowd of people that this document that the House passed is not a Health Care Bill, it destroys coverage for the poor and middle class. She claims that it is the SAME bill, without any changes, that the House denied weeks ago.
She added the bill still cuts Medicaid and takes the funding away from the states to battle opioid addiction!
The @HouseGOP just voted to strip health care away from millions. We can whimper, we can whine – or we can fight back. #AHCA pic.twitter.com/UuwfcSWkag
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) May 4, 2017
Elizabeth had a word of advice to the president. She said that this isn't a scorecard that you cheer when you win. Every decision that is made has a serious consequence. They are playing with peoples lives. Warren said that disease and old age hits every income level. Americans should not have to decide if they are going to pay the rent or mortgage or their medications.
The Senate said they would examine the bill for a few weeks and wait for the budget committee to give their report on the bill.