Bernie Sanders DESTROYS And SHREDS Trump's FAILED American Health Care Act "TRUMPCARE" - 'Victory'

Bernie Sanders DESTROYS And SHREDS Trump's FAILED American Health Care Act "TRUMPCARE" - 'Victory'

Sanders: Canceled ObamaCare repeal vote 'major victory' for working class. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday lauded the canceled vote on the House's ObamaCare repeal bill, calling it a "major victory" for working-class Americans. "The defeat of the disastrous Trump-Ryan health care bill is a major victory for the working families of this country and for the hundreds of thousands who attended rallies and town hall meetings in opposition to this bill," Sanders said in a statement. "What the defeat of this bill shows is that the American people will not accept legislation that provides huge tax breaks to billionaires while 24 million people are kicked off their health insurance, massive cuts are made to Medicaid and Planned Parenthood and premiums for senior citizens are dramatically increased," he added. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced that he would pull the bill from consideration on Friday just before a scheduled afternoon vote. He said that ObamaCare "will remain the law of the land" for the foreseeable future. Sanders maintained that the lawmakers should seek to improve ObamaCare instead of pushing to repeal it. "Our job is to improve the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it. Our job is to guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege," he said. Sen. Bernie Sanders cast the GOP as "out of touch" with the public on health care Friday, citing opposition to the Obamacare repeal and replace efforts at a series of contentious town halls as a driving factor behind Republicans' inability to push through the American Health Care Act. "I think one of the reasons this legislation went down today is that all over this country we had hundreds of thousands of people coming out to rallies," the Vermont senator told CNN's Anderson Cooper several hours after a canceled vote on the Republican health care bill. "People began the process of fighting back. We have got to continue that," he added. Sanders, who panned the Republican bill as merely a tax break for the rich, said that while the rising premiums that have plagued President Barack Obama's signature health care law are an issue, Congress should be focused on improving it, not replacing it. The former Democratic presidential contender also deflected questions on whether the failed legislative bid constituted a significant loss for President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan. "Nobody really cares that it's a failure of Trump or a failure of Ryan," he said. "What the American people are asking is how does it happen that we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?" Sanders, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, also scoffed at the Trump administration's comments lamenting the difficulty of pushing a health care bill through Congress. "I thought it was rather amusing that a few weeks ago President Trump said health care's really complicated," he said "Well, you know, for those of us who are on the health education committee, those of us who had dozens of hearings and mark-ups, yeah, health care is pretty complicated." "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated," Trump said on Feb. 28 during a gathering with the nation's governors. On Friday, the Republicans pulled their health care bill from the floor, just minutes before their second scheduled vote in as many days, signaling once and for all that the GOP replacement for Obamacare is dead. Though Trump was quick to blame Democrats for the failure, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was quick to offer a rebuttal, calling the defeat a "major victory" to the regular people who stood up in opposition to the bill and proclaiming that, "[t]he bill's defeat shows Americans won't accept huge tax breaks for billionaires while 24 million people are kicked off health insurance." In the lead up to Friday's debacle, thousands of people across the country pressured their elected officials to oppose the GOP's plan and arguing to protect.

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