WASHINGTON – US Senator Charles Schumer, the top Democrat in the Republican-controlled Senate, vowed to continue to fight against Trumpcare.
The senator said on Wednesday that it will “spike costs” for older New York residents, increase deductibles, and cut Medicaid, which will impact seniors’ access to nursing homes, reduce the ability of schools to provide services to children with disabilities, and over time, reduce what states receive.
“Thirty years ago Medicaid, I support it, was for the poor,” Schumer said. “Now it has become a middle class program – opioid addiction, nursing homes, things like that.”
Schumer said close to one million upstate New Yorkers are at risk of losing their health coverage by 2026 under Trumpcare.
In New York’s 17th Congressional District, represented by Democrat Nita Lowey, close to 79,000 people would lose their health coverage. In Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney’s 18th District, 69,000 people would lose coverage. In Republican John Faso’s 19th District, 68,000 people would lose their coverage.
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