On the recordJuly 18, 2017
Mr. President, I am honored to join my colleagues here today. I thank Senator Carper for his excellent suggestions and leadership in terms of reaching out to both the current and former Governors as we proceed on this issue. I am very grateful to my colleague Senator Kaine for his leadership on the HELP Committee and what he brings as a former mayor and Governor. I rise today to join my colleague from New Hampshire in supporting her efforts to help lower healthcare premiums for middle-class Americans and to stabilize the insurance marketplace. The Trump administration has been working to sabotage the individual market by playing games with cost-sharing reductions. Those cost- sharing reductions help lower out-of-pocket expenses, such as deductibles and copays, for individuals with health insurance plans in the marketplace. This legislation from Senator Shaheen is a commonsense measure that would work to prevent the instability and chaos being pushed by the administration. I also join my colleagues in making clear that we are ready and willing to work across the aisle on priorities that will improve and build on the Affordable Care Act and bring down costs for people in New Hampshire and across the country. Over the course of the last several months, we have seen that the partisan process Republican leadership has pushed with TrumpCare simply won't work.…





