“This bill is going to result in many lives in ruin. This keeps me up at night.”
— Jennifer H. Chuang, MD, MS, Adolescent Medicine, Moorestown, NJ
“I’m opposed to the BCRA because it fails to guarantee coverage for basic medical conditions…”
— Miryam Miller, MD, Emergency Medicine, Albuquerque, NM
“My patients may not be covered for mammography, and breast cancers will be missed. People will die from this…”
— Gennifer Geller, MD, Radiology, Rye, NY
“There’s no way we can accomodate the millions of additional uninsured patients who will find it unavailable to acquire insurance under the new bill...”
— Gary Greenberg, MD, Internal Medicine, Raleigh, NC
“This bill will affect my patients’ health: maternal and fetal deaths will rise.”
— Carmen Baxter, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Dayton, Ohio
“I worry every day about how this health care bill is going to impact my patients with chronic conditions. But I also worry about my daughter. She received a diagnosis of Marfan’s syndrome when she was two days old… She’s gonna have a lot of bills and probably a lot of surgeries.”
“I don’t want to see another patient who dies because they didn’t have access to preventive health screening, because they didn’t have insurance…”
— Ilene Wong, MD, Urology, West Chester, PA
“Under the AHCA, you may not be covered when you need it most.”
— Megan Ranney, MD MPH, Emergency Medicine, Providence, RI
“My patients are not only concerned about their diagnosis, but also about being able to afford insurance when their treatment is over…”
— Dana Cardin, MD, MSCI, Medical Oncologist, Nashville, TN
“It’s poised to hurt our most vulnerable population: our children.”
— Terri Major-Kincaide, MD, Neonatology, Dallas, TX
“Americans deserve healthy families...”
— Cara Heuser, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Salt Lake City, UT
“Our state won’t give you Medicaid, so you take a whole day off of work, travel 2.5 hours to my free clinic to treat your diabetes, and panhandle for gas money for the ride home.”
— Megan Lemay, MD, Primary Care-Internal Medicine, Richmond, VA
“Taking health insurance away from 20-plus million Americans will not make people healthier.”
— Steven Pergam, MD, Infectious Disease, Seattle, WA
“I’m worried about the BCRA, because as a neurosurgeon, I take care of people on the worst day of our lives…”
— Cara Sedney, MD, Neurosurgery, Morgantown, WV
“28% of adults <64 in WI have pre-existing conditions. Almost 1.2 million people in WI use public insurance in some form in WI. The healthcare of all of these people is at risk.”
— Amy Walsh, MD, Emergency Medicine, Madison, WI
