{"id":1161,"date":"2017-03-15T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/15\/dnc-chair-statement-trump-brings-broken-promises-tour-to-michigan\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:23:00","slug":"dnc-chair-statement-trump-brings-broken-promises-tour-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-statement-trump-brings-broken-promises-tour-to-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Chair Statement: Trump Brings Broken Promises Tour to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &ndash;DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement as Trump returns to Michigan with nothing more than broken promises on TrumpCare to show after more than 50 days in office:<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s clear now that Donald Trump was lying when he promised every family in Michigan would have less expensive but better health care.&nbsp;TrumpCare will cause thousands of working families and older Americans to lose their insurance, including many of the 637,000 Michiganders who qualified for coverage under the Affordable Care Act&rsquo;s Medicaid expansion.&nbsp;This broken promise may not mean much to Donald Trump &ndash; but it&rsquo;s a matter of life and death to many of the hardworking families depending keeping their health insurance.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>&ldquo;When Keith and&nbsp;I&nbsp;travel to Michigan next week, we&rsquo;ll sit down with the very people Trump is kicking to the curb in favor of the big insurance companies and his&nbsp;friends on Wall Street. Because when it comes to protecting the 24 million Americans who will go without health care or standing up for America&rsquo;s workers, the Democratic Party takes a backseat to nobody.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<u><strong>TRUMP PROMISED &ldquo;LESS EXPENSIVE BUT BETTER&rdquo; HEALTHCARE FOR EVERY FAMILY IN MICHIGAN<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Trump: &ldquo;We&#39;re Going To Save Health Care For Every Family In Michigan, For Every Family In Our Country. Much Less Expensive, But Better Healthcare.&rdquo;<\/strong>&nbsp;[Trump Campaign Rally, Grand Rapids MI, 10\/31\/16]<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<u><strong>AN ESTIMATED 637,000 MICHIGANDERS QUALIFIED FOR HEALTH INSURANCE UNDER THE MEDICAID EXPANSION<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>An Estimated 637,000 Michiganders Qualified For Insurance Under The ACA&rsquo;s Medicaid Expansion.<\/strong>&nbsp;&ldquo;Michigan is one of several states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act &mdash; also known as Obamacare &mdash; with an estimated 637,000 people qualifying under Gov. Rick Snyder&rsquo;s Healthy Michigan program.&rdquo; [Detroit Free Press,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/03\/13\/obamacare-replacement-hits-michigans-working-poor-hardest\/99142552\/\">3\/13\/17<\/a>]<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><u>Detroit Free Press<\/u>: &ldquo;If The Plan Severely Scales Back Medicaid Payments, Many Michiganders Would Be Expected To Ultimately Lose Or Fail To Qualify For Coverage.&rdquo;<\/strong>&nbsp;[Detroit Free Press,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/03\/13\/obamacare-replacement-hits-michigans-working-poor-hardest\/99142552\/\">3\/13\/17<\/a>]<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n###<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &ndash;DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement as Trump returns to Michigan with nothing more than broken promises on TrumpCare to show after more than 50 days in office: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s clear now that Donald Trump was lying when he promised every family in Michigan would have less expensive but better health care.&nbsp;TrumpCare will <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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