{"id":1543,"date":"2017-06-27T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/tom-perez-on-gop-health-care-vote-delay\/"},"modified":"2017-06-27T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:50:00","slug":"tom-perez-on-gop-health-care-vote-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-gop-health-care-vote-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Perez on GOP Health Care Vote Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>WASHINGTON &#8212; DNC Chair&nbsp;Tom&nbsp;Perez&nbsp;released the following statement after Senate Republicans delayed voting on their&nbsp;health&nbsp;care&nbsp;bill, which would kick 22 million Americans off their insurance:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While the American people sent a clear message to Senate Republicans and forced them to&nbsp;delay&nbsp;their&nbsp;vote&nbsp;to take away&nbsp;health&nbsp;care&nbsp;from 22 million people, this fight is far from over. We won&rsquo;t stop making our voices heard as long as Republicans continue their efforts to strip Americans of one of their most basic rights:&nbsp;health&nbsp;care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This Republican repeal bill is unconscionably cruel and hurts women, children, older Americans and middle class families. Our elected leaders should be doing everything possible to ensure that more people have access to affordable coverage &ndash; not less.&nbsp; Democrats will continue working to improve the ACA, and we will continue to organize, make calls and knock on doors to make it loud and clear that&nbsp;health&nbsp;care&nbsp;is a right for all, not a privilege for a wealthy few.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; DNC Chair&nbsp;Tom&nbsp;Perez&nbsp;released the following statement after Senate Republicans delayed voting on their&nbsp;health&nbsp;care&nbsp;bill, which would kick 22 million Americans off their insurance: &nbsp; &ldquo;While the American people sent a clear message to Senate Republicans and forced them to&nbsp;delay&nbsp;their&nbsp;vote&nbsp;to take away&nbsp;health&nbsp;care&nbsp;from 22 million people, this fight is far from over. We won&rsquo;t stop making our <\/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-1543","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tom Perez on GOP Health Care Vote Delay - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-gop-health-care-vote-delay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-27T19:50:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-gop-health-care-vote-delay\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-gop-health-care-vote-delay\/\",\"name\":\"Tom Perez on GOP Health Care Vote Delay - 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