The Republican 'Clean' CR is Deadly

The "clean" CR Republicans keep touting will kill Americans, with studies predicting that doubling premiums for the ACA + removing 15M from Medicaid will end up killing 50,000 low-income Americans.

The “clean” CR Republicans keep touting will actually kill Americans, with studies predicting that doubling premiums for the ACA and removing 15 million people from Medicaid and the ACA will result in 50,000 low-income Americans dying annually.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) discussed why they are not supporting the so-called “clean” CR that Trump and Republicans keep touting.

SANDERS: Anyhow, as everybody knows, we are now in a government shutdown. Republicans are attacking Alexandria, attacking me. Why didn’t you vote for this “clean” CR to keep the government up?

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AOC: Well, there’s nothing clean about it. This is one of the dirtiest tricks that is being pulled on the American people right now, starting today, October 1, and throughout the rest of the month, Americans across this country are going to start getting notifications that their insurance premiums are up to doubling. We’re talking about

SANDERS: —say that again—

AOC: — your insurance, your monthly insurance premiums, are going to double for millions of people across the country

SANDERS: At a time when we’re already paying by far the highest prices in the world for health care, at a time when people can’t afford it right now. So what happens?

AOC: That means people getting bankrupt over chemotherapy, people going to the pharmacy and not being able to get their insulin, and frankly, it means a lot of Americans are going to be in danger, and Republicans want us to rubber stamp that. So what are we going to say to that, Bernie?

SANDERS: Let’s be clear. And that doesn’t make me happy to have to say this, but there’s been studies out there that would you combine doubling premiums for the ACA, and then throwing 15 million people off of Medicaid and the ACA, the result is, according to studies at Yale and University of Pennsylvania, 50,000 low income working class Americans will die every single year.

All right, if you don’t have the money to go to a doctor and you’re sick, you die. And that’s what we’re looking that’s what this “clean bill” is about.

AOC: And so Republicans want us to rubber stamp that, and we’re saying, ‘No,’ we need to stand up for the American people. We need to stand up for our health care system, and if they want our votes, they need to make sure that we’re protecting every American and making sure that we can do what we can to continue to make health care accessible affordable as we work to make it a human right for all right.

SANDERS: So just back that up. Remember, right now our health care system is broken right now. We’re the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, and these guys want to make it even worse. We’re not going to let that happen.

AOC: No, we’re not. Thank you, sir.

It’s not a “clean CR” when it will kill 50,000 people.