Former Vice President Joe Biden
Joe BidenRev. Barber says best way to undercut extremism is with honesty Biden requires international travelers to quarantine upon arrival to US Overnight Defense: House approves waiver for Biden's Pentagon nominee | Biden to seek five-year extension of key arms control pact with Russia | Two more US service members killed by COVID-19 MORE ripped into Senate GOP efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare in a slew of tweets on Friday.
“The Senate health bill isn't about health care at all—it's a wealth transfer: slashes care to fund tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations,” Biden said about the Republican legislation unveiled Thursday.
The Senate health bill isn't about health care at all—it's a wealth transfer: slashes care to fund tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 23, 2017
The former vice president also hit the bill’s deep cuts Medicaid, as well as its provisions to provide higher tax breaks for wealthier Americans.
Slashing Medicaid hurts kids, the elderly, people with disabilities and those struggling with addiction. All for tax breaks for the wealthy.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 23, 2017
Especially now, when so many communities are struggling with opioid addiction, the bill's drastic cuts to Medicaid are cruel.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 23, 2017
Biden wrapped up his tweetstorm, calling for a new piece of legislation aimed at fixing healthcare, as well as a “reasonable debate” on the subject.
Let's see a bill that actually tries to improve folks' health care, and then we can have a reasonable debate about how to best do that.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 23, 2017
Biden’s comments come as bipartisan criticism aimed at the legislation continues to grow.
Senate Democrats have unanimously opposed the bill, while Sen. Dean Heller
Dean Arthur HellerOn The Trail: Democrats plan to hammer Trump on Social Security, Medicare Lobbying World Democrats spend big to put Senate in play MORE (R-Nev.) on Friday joined four other GOP senators in announcing opposition to the current bill.
President Obama issued his own criticism of the bill on Thursday, calling the legislation "fundamental meanness," while former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonSamantha Power's Herculean task: Turning a screw with a rubber screwdriver Beau Biden Foundation to deny lobbyist donations, make major donors public Whoopi Goldberg wears 'my vice president' shirt day after inauguration MORE on Friday said the GOP would become the "death party" if ObamaCare is repealed.
