WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats are trying to make the vote on the House GOP health plan personal for their Republican counterparts.
After each Republican speaks on the House floor in favor of the bill, Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., cites the number of people in their congressional district who will lose health insurance under the bill.
Under the bill, 24 million fewer people will have health insurance by 2026, according to congressional estimates.
Rep. Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana, proclaimed that a vote against the bill is “a vote against freedom.”
Yarmuth replied that the bill would result in 50,100 people from his Higgins’ congressional district losing health coverage.
Republicans disputed the numbers. They noted that Yarmuth got his congressional district estimates from the Center for American Progress, a liberal advocacy group.
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