Senator Chuck Schumer

I have two kids.

I can't afford $15,000 more a year.

I only make $60,000, $70,000.

Am I gonna have no health insurance?

What am I gonna do if my kid gets sick?

What am I gonna do in these situations?

So this is one of the most severe and devastating cuts in healthcare that we have ever had.

And we feel an obligation to represent the American people in this trauma.

And even if you don't have, your Medicare will go up because of deficits.

If you have Medicaid, you're in real trouble, of course.

And it's not just poor people, and I believe in helping the poor people, of course, but it's middle-class people too because of nursing homes and stuff.

But even if you have neither Medicare nor Medicaid nor ACA, your premium is going to go up a lot because the insurance companies have to make up the money they're losing somewhere else.

So this is going to be probably certainly the worst crisis in health care.

for as long as I can remember.

They say we'll have a plan, but they don't say what it is.

But for so many of them, they've hated this from the beginning.

Many of them opposed Medicare and Medicaid when they started in the 60s.

Before the 1960s, we didn't have much health care in America.

You were on your own.

Every Western country had it.