Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to speak about an issue that, candidly, we don't talk enough about around here, and that is the threat to the Affordable Care Act and the lawsuit that was filed and is now in a Federal court. This time, it is in the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Earlier this month, there were oral arguments. This case could be decided in a short timeframe, maybe even this fall. I guess, because it is not an issue that is being debated in the Halls of Congress by way of hearings or votes or otherwise, it doesn't get the attention it warrants. This lawsuit, which is now a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, would be every bit as devastating and harmful as the repeal efforts that were undertaken two summers ago, in 2017, and the consequences of the success in that lawsuit would put the country in the same place it would have been had the repeal effort been successful. If you want to simplify it, the Affordable Care Act has two parts to it. We know, for example, of the protections that were put in place in the Affordable Care Act, one was new protections, and the other was new coverage. So, roughly, 20 million people got coverage who didn't have coverage before. Most of those 20 million, at the time--or a higher number at least--were folks who had gained their healthcare coverage through Medicaid expansion.…”