Tim Ryan on GOP Health Care Bill: ‘This Is a Direct Assault on Working Class People’

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RYAN: “Where to start? I mean, the 24 million people that will get kicked off. In my congressional district alone, we have about 270,000 people who have a pre-existing condition; 2.7 million people in Ohio. So, all of those people now will see higher rates. If you’re a senior, we had a cap through the Affordable Care Act, they could only charge a senior three times as much as you can charge a younger healthier person in the plan. The Republicans moved that cap so now you can charge a senior in Youngstown, Ohio five times what you could charge somebody young and healthy. So this is a direct assault on working class people. And it tells them, 'If you have a pre-existing condition, you’re the back of the line. If you’re older, you get in the back the line.' There will be a lot of healthier people and insurance companies ahead of you in the line.”