"Either you want to destroy Medicaid in America, or you want to stand with people’s health care. Either you want to destroy Medicaid and other health programs so you can give a gigantic tax reduction to the wealthiest 0.2 percent of our population, or you care about health care and the citizens of your state.”

"This bill is a disaster, and it cannot be saved. In addition to the millions of people who will lose insurance nationwide and the billions of Medicaid dollars Connecticut will lose, this bill in effect allows states to discriminate against people with preexisting conditions."

In order make up for losses in Medicaid funding, Connecticut would have to cut 32% of its elementary and secondary education funding, 45% of its higher education funding, 166% of its corrections funding, or 58% of transportation funding.