GOP Health Care Bill Would Throw 22 Million off Insurance

Republicans are trying to ram their health care bill through the Senate before the voters who sent them to Washington realize just how bad this plan is. Originally, Senate leadership wanted to vote on the bill this week before Senators headed home for recess and faced their constituents, but strong public backlash against the plan forced them to delay the vote – for now.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the GOP's legislation will raise premium and out-of-pocket costs for working families and 15 million Americans will lose their health care over the next year – including 4 million who are on their employer's plan. About 22 million people would lose coverage by 2026. It allows insurance companies to charge older Americans five times the rate of other insured persons in what many are calling an "age tax."

Health care providers and experts have criticized this bill, from the American Medical Association, which says the bill violates doctors' principle of "first, do no harm," to health care associations that are warning of the devastation to services to all people living in rural areas.

Like the House bill, the Senate plan is a massive tax giveaway to the wealthy and corporations.

The fight is only beginning. Please call 1-855-980-2280 or click here to tell your Senator to oppose this devastating attack on health care. It's not a health care bill; it's a $700 billion tax giveaway to the wealthy.

CWAers and allies rallied at Senator Marco Rubio's (R-FL) office in Miami, Fl., calling on him to oppose the GOP tax giveaway to the top 1%.