Hoyer Discusses the GOP Bill to Make Americans Pay More For Less with MSNBC's Craig Melvin

WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) joined MSNBC's Craig Melvin this afternoon to discuss the House Republicans' bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Below are excerpts from the interview and a link to the video:

“The bill that the Republicans have offered will literally have Americans paying more and getting less. It will have Medicaid put at risk and millions of people losing their coverage under Medicaid over the years, and it will put Medicare at risk by defunding it and making it lose its fiscal viability much sooner than it would under the ACA. So the fact of the matter is, Americans are going to see their health care put at risk by the Republican bill… This bill does not go to where President Trump says he wants to go: everybody having health care at a lower cost and higher quality. This bill doesn't even come close to that.”

“…The fact is that the bill that is now being considered without any hearings, with 48 hours’ notice to the American people with no American being asked to come in and testify as to what they believe the effects of the bill will be. The committee is marking it up – they're rushing to a judgment, in my opinion, because they don't want the American people to see how drastically this will reduce their availability and affordability of health care and then transmit that message to the Members of Congress."