--- title: Seth Meyers on Donald Trump and GOP Health Care Bill VIDEO description: Ahead of the House's vote on the American Health Care Act, Seth Meyers delivered a takedown of the GOP attempt to replace Obamacare. canonical: https://time.com/4767041/seth-meyers-trump-gop-health-care-bill/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-04T16:26:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:20.934Z og:title: Seth Meyers Slams Trump's 'Disastrous' Health Care Bill og:description: "Trump and the GOP have actually made the bill even worse" og:url: https://time.com/4767041/seth-meyers-trump-gop-health-care-bill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers Slams Trump's 'Disastrous' Health Care Bill twitter:description: "Trump and the GOP have actually made the bill even worse" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers Rips Into President Trump and the GOP's 'Disastrous' Health Care Bill > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 4, 2017 4:26 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 4, 2017 4:26 PM UTC Just ahead of the House’s Thursday vote on the[ American Health Care Act](http://time.com/4766333/obamacare-repeal-house-republican-health-care-vote/), [Seth Meyers](http://time.com/4759246/seth-meyers-on-melania-trump-birthday/) delivered a blistering takedown of the [GOP’s second attempt to repeal Obamacare](http://time.com/4765833/health-care-ahca-republican-bill/). During the “A Closer Look” segment of Wednesday’s episode of _Late Night_, the host slammed the changes Republicans have made to the bill since. “In a scramble to come up with something — anything — that would pass, Trump and the GOP have actually made the bill even worse to appeal to hardline conservatives,” he said. “This new bill would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions, and a recent study found that premiums would rise for people with asthma by $4,000, diabetes by more than $5,000 and pregnancy by $17,000.” Meyers then shared his take on why the GOP is so determined to move forward with this bill. “As muddled as the GOP message is on health care, I do think there’s one theme that is starting to come through clearly,” he explained. “You see, part of the problem for Republicans is that they’re trying to hide a core truth about their bill — as well as a core truth about Republican ideology — which is that they simply don’t think it’s government’s job to ensure that people get affordable health care.” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4767041/seth-meyers-trump-gop-health-care-bill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4767041/seth-meyers-trump-gop-health-care-bill/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Rips Into President Trump and the GOP's 'Disastrous' Health Care Bill","datePublished":"2017-05-04T16:26:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:20.934Z","description":"\"Trump and the GOP have actually made the bill even worse\"","url":"https://time.com/4767041/seth-meyers-trump-gop-health-care-bill/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Health Care","Television","politics","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","trumpcare"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4767041/seth-meyers-trump-gop-health-care-bill/","name":"Seth Meyers Rips Into President Trump and the GOP's 'Disastrous' Health Care Bill"}}]}] ```