If we didn't vote to repeal it 63 times and voted to improve it 63 times I think we would have a much better law.
The way I look at it, the problem is our friends in the majority don't want to fix it. They want to break it so it will go away.
I am mystified by Republican attempts to paint a rosy picture of the insurance market prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
We have come a long way. An estimated 20 million Americans have gained health insurance through the ACA.
Unfortunately, my Republican colleagues are only interested in undermining, weakening or repealing the law.
It is just 6 years since enactment and 3 years since the major reforms of the Affordable Care Act, the ACA, went into effect.
Regardless of whether you supported the ACA 6 years ago or when it passed into law, it is hard to deny that there is historic success.
However, without strong enforcement of the parity law, millions of people continue to struggle to get the health care they need.
And I know with our mental health bill we passed--it is still in the Senate--we didn't put that provision from Representative Kennedy in, bu...
Congress did our part. We passed a parity law requiring health plans and Medicaid and Medicare and the private market to cover mental health...
Millions of Americans, as many as one in five, have a mental illness.