ER Doc Explains: Trump’s Big Bill Will Kill Americans

There’s nobody better than an emergency room doctor to destroy Republican lies about the deadly effects of their Big Billionaire Tax Cuts Bill.

Democratic Pennsylvania state Rep. Arvind Venkat said he knows that the bill will be fatal because he saw patients before Medicaid was expanded under the Affordable Care Act “when 20% of my patients had no insurance” and “would come into the emergency department too late for me to treat them.”

The bill’s “sick tax” will make the bad situation worse. According to Venkat, the bill requires the working poor to spend up to $1,000 of their income for medical care unless it’s an emergency. We all know that will push people into using hospital emergency rooms when they could have gotten care elsewhere. That will also further strain ER departments and cause longer waiting times for all of us.

Venkat went on to call out the obvious GOP cover-up about their bill’s effects:

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