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A report out Friday from the Brookings Institution says it is likely the Congressional Budget Office will estimate more than 15 million people would lose health care coverage under the new House GOP bill.
The CBO is expected to release its projections Monday on how many people might lose health insurance, and how much premiums and out-of-pocket costs might amount to under the American Health Care Act – the bill House Republicans have put forth to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Denver – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said today's Congressional Budget Office assessment of the Republican bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act proves that Americans would be better off if Congress works on a bipartisan basis to amend the ACA rather than jamming through a unilateral repeal.
WASHINGTON — Three days after Republicans introduced their plan to re-do the Affordable Care Act, reaction among members of Colorado's congressional delegation generally has split along partisan lines — though there's been a greater range of responses from its GOP lawmakers.
Washington, DC – At a marathon committee markup, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, fought to protect Coloradans from reckless GOP efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act by resisting Republican committee members' unilateral rush to repeal the ACA and proposing amendments to limit the damage this new legislation would do.
DeGette also proposed amendments to prevent the defunding of Planned Parenthood and to protect millions of Americans from increases in out-of-pocket costs, including deductibles.
Washington, DC – At the Energy & Commerce Committee's overnight markup of the GOP bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, tried to prevent Republicans from continuing their relentless attack on women's reproductive health care. DeGette introduced an amendment with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) to strike a provision in the American Health Care Act that would defund Planned Parenthood.
Washington DC - Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-1) and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-25), co-chairs of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, released this statement on the Republican health care bill as the House Ways & Means and Energy and Commerce Committees prepare to consider the legislation today. The Republican bill would be devastating for women nationwide and includes a provision defunding Planned Parenthood, which provides life-saving preventative care to 2.5 million people.
Committee Markup of The American Health Care Act
VERBATIM, AS DELIVERED
Chairman, even though the majority has refused to send this bill for a score to the CBO before we mark it up, Joe Antos from the American Enterprise Institute has estimated that 10 to 15 million people will lose their insurance because of this legislation, and a number of other think tanks have said the same.
I want to ask you a question, Mr. Chairman: Who are those 10 to 15 million people?
Washington, DC – In response to President Donald J. Trump's second Executive Order to keep people from Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, issued the following statement:
"Americans rose up immediately to tell him it was wrong. Our allies overseas weighed in, as well. Courts stopped him from proceeding. But President Trump wouldn't listen, and has now tried again to push through this discriminatory, dangerous ban.
Washington, DC -- Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said Attorney General Jeff Sessions should resign or be removed immediately due to revelations about his meetings and perhaps other contact with the Russian ambassador to the United States, which appear to conflict with his oral and written testimony at his confirmation hearing.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and a leading voice on American health care policy, issued the following statement today about reports that Republican House members had drafted a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act but were hiding it from Democrats:
"Before passing the ACA, the House held 79 related bipartisan hearings and markups over two years, with input from 181 witnesses proposed on both sides the aisle. The bill was posted online for 30 days before the first committee markup.