Sens. Kaine, Murphy Introduce Amendment Opposing GOP Efforts to Repeal Affordable Care Act
During remarks on the
"There is no reason, while we acknowledge the need for improvement, to repeal the Affordable Care Act outright without having a sense of what the replacement would be. By doing so, we create chaos in the economy, chaos in the health insurance market, and chaos in the most intimate and most important area of people's lives: their health," said Kaine. "The ACA was not only about the affordability of care, and not only about the coverage, it was also about the quality of care. Could your coverage discriminate against you because you were a woman? Could your coverage expire once you get diagnosed with an illness and now have a pre-existing condition? These bill of rights protections for patients were an important and integral part of the Affordable Care Act. The budget point of order we would put on the table would establish a 60-vote threshold for considering any legislation that triggered one of those three concerns: reductions in coverage, increase in costs, reduction in quality."
"If Republicans have their way, 30 million Americans will lose their health insurance. We'll go back to the day when people were denied coverage and went bankrupt simply because they got sick, and when women paid more to receive the same benefits as men. I refuse to allow that to happen, and this amendment will help us stop it," said Murphy. "Health care in America should be less expensive and easier to find. But rather than even trying to work in a bipartisan way,
The measure would amend the partisan budget that
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