The townhall witnessed a packed house
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA 7th District) on Thursday hosted a town hall in Seattle focusing on the Republican-led Senate’s Obamacare replacement bill.
This was the sixth town hall hosted by the Indian American congresswoman since taking office in January. Her earlier townhalls took place in Seattle, Vashon Island, Shoreline, and Burien.
The townhall witnessed a packed house and Jayapal asked everyone to fight against Trump care as it affects the lives.
“I want us to be very clear that this is not a health care bill. It will not be a healthcare bill if it cuts 22 million Americans,” Jayapal said while discussing the consequences of Trumpcare on working families.
“Get out there and fight like our lives depend on it, because they do,” she said adding that what we have to do is to make sure people know what is in the bill.
“This is the moment you call everybody to know, in whatever state you know, and make sure they understand what’s this country, because once we lost Medicaid, we will not get it back,” the first Indian American congresswoman said.
Jayapal asked everyone to keep up the pressure on Trump’s ‘wealthcare’ pointing that more than 600,000 Washingtonians have benefited from Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
Jayapal, who is a Vice Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, earlier called on every elected member of the Senate with a conscience to reject Trumpcare as the latest CBO score points that it would kick 22 million people off health coverage over next decade.
“The numbers prove that Trumpcare is cruel – that has not changed. We should be expanding health care and adding millions to the ranks of the insured, not destroying care by slashing billions from Medicaid and giving tax breaks to the wealthy,” she said in a press release last week.