Political Quotes

“I am really pleased to have been joined by my colleagues to talk about the importance of addressing healthcare for all Americans, especially my colleague from New Hampshire. She and I have been touring the State for months now, talking with people in hospitals, with patients, with physicians, with providers, with people with substance use disorders, with providers who are providing treatment for people with substance use disorders, with people all over New Hampshire about what we can do to make sure people get healthcare when they need it. That should be the goal of this body. It should not be throwing people off their healthcare, which a repeal of the Affordable Care Act would do. It would throw 32 million people off their healthcare. We can address the instability in the marketplaces. We can do that pretty quickly. Senators Kaine and Carper talked about reinsurance, something which has worked very well for the first 3 years of the Affordable Care Act, and the reason it doesn't work now is because they have stopped. That is why we are seeing some of these rate increases. We can address the uncertainty by being clear that we are not going to repeal the Affordable Care Act, by addressing those cost-sharing reduction payments. The ACA already stipulates that CSR--those payments which reduce the costs of copays and deductibles--are to be made pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1324.…”