Sam Stein: GOP Health Care Bill ‘Will Fundamentally Take Away Health Care Coverage from Millions of Americans

‘It’s odd, considering the criticisms that happened in 2009’

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STEIN: "Let’s not compare the Senate bill against the House bill. Let’s compare the Senate bill against what’s currently reality." 
BRZEZINSKI: "To what we have, right. Got it." 
STEIN: "And what you’re going to end up with is something along the lines of potentially 20 million people uninsured -- more uninsured. And I find it unbelievable that we’re talking about this in an age where we’re also talking about a national opioid epidemic. I mean, this is happening across the country. Millions of people are suffering from this opioid epidemic, and what we’re about to see is the Senate vote on something that will crush the most fundamental way to deal with the opioid epidemic, which is the expansion of Medicaid."

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