Manchin on AHCA: ‘You’re Throwing the Baby out with the Bath Water’

RUSH EXCERPT:
MANCHIN: "We have a lot of pre-existing conditions. I have a lot of people that are elderly. Every dynamic in every topography of my state gets absolutely slammed with this piece of legislation. So I said, the get rid of the word “repeal” and start talking about repairing. If they can get rid of the word “repeal,” John, we can sit down, Democrats and Republicans could work through this. We know that this bill needs to be fixed. The Affordable Care Act, there’s not a Democrat that doesn’t realize we need to work on the private market. But you’re throwing the baby out with the bath water and then you’re throwing insult to injury by giving $575 billion tax cut to the wealthiest Americans while you’re cutting $880 billion of service to the poorest Americans. If you want more synergies there, you know, I said this before, John, we have given 20 million people — 20 million people health care that never had, never bought, don’t know the value. We never gave them one word of instructions how to use it, how to use it more effectively, how to use it more efficiently, how to keep themselves healthier, nutritional, lifestyles, changing their whole lifestyles, making them more accountable and responsible. There’s tremendous savings. We’re not trying anything. We’re just throwing the baby out with the bath water in order to give a tax break."