{"id":1104,"date":"2017-06-23T19:07:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T19:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/better_care_reconciliation_act\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T21:48:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:48:41","slug":"better_care_reconciliation_act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/better_care_reconciliation_act\/","title":{"rendered":"NCL statement on the Senate Republican release of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 &#8211; National Consumers League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- content_before_flip_start --><\/p>\n<p>June 23, 2017<\/p>\n<p><!-- content_before_flip_end --><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Contact: National Consumers League, Cindy Hoang, cindyh@nclnet.org, (202) 207-2832<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC&#8211;The following statement is attributable to Sally Greenberg, NCL executive director:<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of unprecedented closed-door meetings and deal making, Senate Republicans released their version of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. This cruel legislation shows a brazen disregard for the well-being of Americans, and prioritizes special interests and tax breaks for the rich over affordable healthcare for all. Provisions of this bill include the elimination of essential health benefits, the establishment of ineffective high risk pools to cover America&#8217;s most vulnerable populations, and catastrophic cuts to Medicaid that surpass those included in the House bill. The bill directly contradicts President Trump\u2019s guarantee to leave Medicaid intact, and represents a broken promise to the American people to improve upon the House&#8217;s legislation and ensure affordable coverage for every American.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Consumers League urges patients and consumers to engage their Senators and ask them to vote &#8220;no&#8221; on this bill that will take healthcare away from millions of Americans. We will continue to work with our colleagues in the health and advocacy arenas to vehemently oppose this unscrupulous bill.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>About the National Consumers League<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America&#8217;s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 23, 2017 Contact: National Consumers League, Cindy Hoang, cindyh@nclnet.org, (202) 207-2832 Washington, DC&#8211;The following statement is attributable to Sally Greenberg, NCL executive director: After weeks of unprecedented closed-door meetings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[412],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9871,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/9871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}