Letter: We oppose the bill because it's bad

Letter: We oppose the bill because it's bad

In an opinion column of July 12, Rob Port quotes my condemnation of the law and then asks whether the Democratic Non-Partisan League and I oppose it “because it’s bad or because it’s endorsed by Trump?” So let me answer: it’s bad. We oppose it because it's bad. It’s projected to cut $1.42 billion from Medicaid, leaving almost 20,000 North Dakotans without health care and resulting in up to 50,000 preventable deaths a year nationally; it will res…