Shaheen Statement on Secretary Price’s Visit to New Hampshire and Meeting with Gov. Sununu

(Washington DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statement on Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price’s visit to New Hampshire on Wednesday:

“Considering Secretary Price played a lead role in crafting the Republican leadership’s healthcare repeal bill, I hope that he will take to heart the significant concerns of Granite Staters who are extremely alarmed about the impact that this legislation would have on their lives. Today, Secretary Price said the Trump administration’s focus is to provide coverage and care to every American, but his words don’t match the administration’s actions. The Republican leadership’s healthcare repeal bill decimates Medicaid, and eliminates the program’s expansion and the federal requirement that insurance plans cover substance misuse treatment.  Taken together, these policies would not only take a wrecking ball to our state’s progress to address the opioid epidemic, but put us in a far worse position than ever before. These tools are fundamental to New Hampshire’s efforts to provide treatment to Granite Staters who desperately need it. Needless to say, a listening tour would have been much more appropriate prior to pushing this healthcare repeal legislation through the House of Representatives without any hearings.”