Lest there’s any doubt in anyone’s mind that the “new” Senate tax cut bill, also known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act, is a step (in seven-league boots) back into the past, one need only listen to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price saying that the country’s health care system—should the BCRA succeed in passage—ought to operate the way it did before the Affordable Care Act was passed.

According to a Huffington Post report, Price appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and was asked to respond to severe criticisms of the bill leveled by, of all groups, the insurance industry.

Industry groups America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association of America teamed up to write a letter to Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader, calling the proposed plan together with an amendment added by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas “simply unworkable in any form.” The letter also warned that the bill and amendment as written would result in “widespread terminations of coverage” among those suffering from serious medical problems.