Hoyer Discusses TrumpCare on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

“…Clearly, they don't have the votes now because the President is working it very hard and the Republican leadership is working very hard, and they are making changes that we are not sure what the changes are. We haven't seen the changes. And to bring a bill to the Floor of this magnitude that is going to put at risk millions of people from losing their insurance, millions more paying much more for coverage, and placing really substantially additional costs on seniors shouldn't be brought to the Floor with this kind of doubt and with the lack of information as to what's in the bill.”

“…[President] Trump will see this, if he loses this bill, as a loss. I don't, frankly, think he knows what's in it. It clearly does not achieve what the President promised to the American people. He said everybody was going to have insurance. He didn't say access to insurance. He said everybody was going to have insurance, better quality, at lower cost. This bill does not accomplish that… CBO says 14 million people are going to lose insurance just this coming year, twenty-four million by 2026. There’s going to be 52 million people without insurance in America. That will cost everybody else who has insurance higher premiums and substantially more cost in deductibles and premiums. So, this is a bad bill. It doesn't accomplish the objective that the American people want or that President Trump said he wanted to accomplish.”

“They were pandering to their hard right, in my opinion. They were pandering to people who weren't really cognizant of what the bill specifics were, and they voted for repealing the Affordable Care Act. Now we see them saying, we didn't really mean that in terms of staying on until you are 26. We didn't mean that when we talked about pre-existing conditions. We really didn't mean that when we talked about eliminating annual or lifetime limits that drive people into bankruptcy, so, they voted a lot of times to repeal all of those items. But when it came down to really doing it and having a plan, frankly, they had none and they still have no plan that has a consensus in their party and very frankly, I saw Mr. Massie as he was leaving, speaking to you earlier. He was on right before me, he said you're still with me, aren't you? For different reasons, we reached the same conclusions. This is a bad bill for the American people.”