in Rhode Island and all across the country, people are being crushed by high healthcare costs because Republicans have refused to extend the Affordable Care Act funding. People are seeing their premiums go up by thousands of dollars a year, and many of them are having to make that hard choice to not go with insurance at all and hope that they won't end up with an emergency room bill that will bankrupt them. Meanwhile, President Trump and the Republicans are talking about buying Greenland. They have the money to buy Greenland but not to help fund healthcare for the American people. They have the money. Donald Trump wants to expand the size of the military budget by $500 billion which he just posted today, but they don't have the money to fund healthcare for the American people. They have the money for ballrooms and lavish parties. Here is an idea. How about we invest in providing relief to the American people who are being crushed by out-of-control healthcare costs. We have an opportunity now to do the right thing by the people who sent us here and to extend this Affordable Care Act funding now once and for all.
Editor's note · Context
Addressing high healthcare costs and the need to extend Affordable Care Act funding.
Share
More from Seth Magaziner
After 9 months of delay, I rise today to recognize an important victory for the United States and for thousands of children around the world who have a new chance at life. Finally, after months of advocacy and struggle, funding has been…
I rise for the 43rd time today to call on the Trump administration to restore lifesaving food aid for starving children around the world. Edesia Nutrition, an organization in my district, in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, manufactures…
The Constitution is the Constitution. If you don't like the Constitution, you can try to change it.
today, I rise for the 40th time to call on the Trump administration to restore lifesaving food aid for malnourished children. When kids are starving to death, their organs break down. Even if we are able to feed them conventional food…





