Sanders To Go On ‘Don’t Take Our Health Care’ Bus Tour
Democrats Gear Up For Major Fight Over Obamacare Repeal Bill.
Senator Bernie Sanders will lead a MoveOn.org bus tour this weekend to fight against the GOP health care bill.
Sanders will headline three rallies in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia over the weekend.
The states of the bus tour are notable because of MoveOn says it will target three Republican senators – Pat Toomey, Rob Portman and Shelley Moore Capito.
Senate Republicans released their Obamacare repeal bill on Thursday and it was greeted by fierce opposition.
MoveOn announced the bust tour in a press release Thursday, slamming the GOP bill as a massive transfer of wealth to the richest Americans at the expense of the poor.
“The Senate’s health care legislation is an especially cruel and destructive transfer of wealth to the wealthiest American’s at the expense of kids, low-income Americans, the elderly, those with disabilities, and the nearly 23 million Americans who could lose their coverage as a result of health care repeal efforts,” the statement reads.
“According to reports, the Senate legislation—which was devised in secret without a single public hearing, chance for markup, or public input—could eliminate coverage for more than 23 million Americans, raise costs, reduce coverage, and end Medicaid as we know it.”
Earlier in the day, Senator Sanders released his own statement blasting the GOP bill saying “The Republican plan is even worse than expected and by far the most harmful piece of legislation I have seen in my lifetime.”
“This bill has nothing to do with health care. It has everything to do with an enormous transfer of wealth from working people to the richest Americans,” Sanders continued.
“Our job now is to rally millions of Americans against this disastrous bill to make sure that it does not pass the Senate. Instead of throwing tens of millions of Americans off of health insurance, we must guarantee health care as a right to every American.”
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