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WASHINGTON -- The sudden death of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act has created an opening for voices from both parties to press for fixes to the acknowledged problems in President Barack Obama's signature health law, as lawmakers and some senior White House officials appealed for bipartisanship.
But the White House, still smarting from a disastrous defeat on Friday, appeared uncertain on the path forward. President Trump predicted that "Obamacare will explode" and offered no plan to stop it, but his was not the only voice from the White House.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump can't solely blame Colorado for the failure of Republicans on Friday to pass — or even try to pass — an overhaul of the Affordable Care Act.
But the state's reaction to the bill is indicative of why the proposal collapsed one day after Trump threatened lawmakers with a do-or-die ultimatum to either pass it or live with the current health care law, better known as Obamacare.
Washington, DC – In response to House Speaker Paul Ryan's announcement that he is pulling from consideration the Trumpcare bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, issued the following statement:
"This bad bill would have ripped health insurance away from millions of people – 24 million over ten years, and 14 million next year alone – and would have provided less care for others at higher cost.
With a House vote looming, it's still not too late to take a sensible approach to healthcare in America by seeking bipartisan solutions rather than outright repealing the Affordable Care Act.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has confirmed that under the American Health Care Act, more than 24 million people will lose health insurance in the next decade, 14 million of them in 2018 alone. And those who are lucky enough to hold onto their coverage will be forced to pay more for it.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Diana DeGette, Louise Slaughter, Jan Schakowsky, Barbara Lee, Judy Chu, Suzan DelBene, Jerrold Nadler and Katherine Clark today blasted Republicans' latest changes to their disastrous healthcare repeal bill, which threatens the health and well-being of women and families. Under the latest version of the Republican bill, states would be allowed to kick new mothers off Medicaid if they can't find work within 60 days of giving birth.
Every day, somewhere in this country there's a news account about how opioid addiction has wrecked a small town or family -- personal stories of typical Americans who became addicted to pain pills, and then got hooked on heroin.
These are heartbreaking stories of Americans dying and leaving loved ones, often children, to pick up the pieces.
The opioid epidemic is unprecedented. It is also escalating, and we need a comprehensive strategy to confront it.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said President Donald J. Trump's first budget request is short-sighted and would be ruinous for the United States.
"This proposal shows that President Trump's priorities are dangerous," DeGette said. "I am especially concerned that the president plans to gut the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health.
Back in Denver after a 27-hour marathon committee meeting on Republicans' Obamacare replacement, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette said she is "mystified" that Republicans are pushing forward with a bill that most analyses show will cause health insurance to become less available.
"I'm talking to a lot of my Republican colleagues, and privately a lot of them will admit these things are problems, but they all marched off the cliff together in the Energy and Commerce Committee," she said. "… They were really joining hands and jumping off a cliff together."
Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat representing Denver in Congress, is among many who are disappointed with the new GOP plan to replace Pres. Obama's Affordable Care Act.
"This bill is so bad from start to finish I could go on for hours about it," said DeGette.
DeGette is one of the authors of the so-called Obamacare. Although she acknowledges that it has problems, she believes the Republican plan will make things worse.