The American Health Care Act that passed by a four-vote margin on May 4 in the House of Representatives has "major defects," said Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the US bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Social Development.
"It is deeply disappointing that the voices of those who will be most severely impacted were not heeded," Bishop Dewane said in a May 4 statement. "The AHCA does offer critical life protections, and our health care system desperately needs these safeguards. But still, vulnerable people must not be left in poor and worsening circumstances as Congress attempts to fix the current and impending problems with the Affordable Care Act."
