As Health Bill Moves to Senate, Gillibrand Asks Citizens to Voice Opposition

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is urging her colleagues to reject the health care bill Republicans in the House of Representatives passed in a party line vote last week.

At a news conference today, flanked by New York health care advocates and constituents who say they'd suffer under the measure, Gillibrand issued a call to action.

“Now it's up to all of us to speak out as forcefully as we can so that this bill does not pass the senate and never becomes law,” she said.

She urged citizens to call senators, write letters and spread the message that millions will lose health care if the law passes the Senate. She said seniors, women and people with pre-existing conditions would suffer the most.

Some Republican senators have been publicly skeptical of the House bill and changes are possible.