Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., said Thursday the Senate Republican healthcare bill ‘‘takes an ax to the knees of people who now finally have health care.”
“What’s clear to me is that the Senate bill takes an ax to the knees of people who now finally have healthcare as a right, and not just a privilege, and it gives the ability of states to eliminate essential health benefits,” Wasserman Schutlz said on CNN.
Senate Republicans began working on their version of an Obamacare replacement following the passage of the American Health Care Act by the House in May. Republican Senate leadership released the bill, titled the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, Thursday morning.
“This version is certainly no better than the House version. It just cuts people in different gutless and heartless ways,” Wasserman Schultz said.
“I mean, this is devastating to people who now finally have the ability to go to the doctor when they are sick. Make sure they can catch illness early and make sure that, when illness is potentially life threatening, that they will be able to survive it.”
