Schumer Calls McConnell’s Bluff: Let’s Work Together On ‘Improving The Health Care System’

The top Democrats in the Senate sent a letter to Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday pressing him to live up to his threat of bipartisanship on health care.

Senator Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), Dick Durbin (Ill.), Patty Murray (Wash.) and Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) essentially called McConnell’s bluff in their a letter asking him to “focus on immediately advancing policies” to stabilize the market.

“We stand ready to work on … reforms to the current system and urge you to join us in advancing measures that would have an immediate impact on improving the health care system for American families,” they wrote on Monday.

In their letter, the senators include several suggestions for what bills McConnell could take up the Democrats say would make “common sense reforms” to healthcare.

Here is the full letter from the Dems:

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