Health Care Reform

New Hillary for America Video Highlights GOP’s Health Care Plan: Taking Coverage Away from Millions of Americans


Candidates Including Walker, Rubio, Bush, Trump Fail to Explain A Real Alternative, Instead Rely Primarily on Repeal

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2015.  A day after Scott Walker and Marco Rubio restated their commitment to repealing the Affordable Care Act, Hillary for America released a new web video highlighting how repeal of ACA has become the primary health care plan for the GOP field.

Watch the video here.

Republican candidates continue to invoke the catchphrase of plans that will “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, however they fail to show how they would lower health care costs, expand coverage and protect Americans currently benefiting from insurance through the Affordable Care Act. A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office revealed that repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave 19 million Americans uninsured and increase the deficit by nearly $140 billion. Republican candidates continue to offer no new ideas for addressing these problems, while remaining steadfast in their commitment to repeal.

While Republicans continue to rely primarily on repeal alone as their approach to health care, Hillary Clinton remains committed to defending and improving the Affordable Care Act, in the same way she has fought to expand access to health care for much of her career.

In 1979, Clinton chaired the Arkansas Rural Health Advisory Committee, which focused on expanding health care access to isolated rural areas of the state. [New York Times, 1/20/93]

In the early 1990s as First Lady, when Congress defeated health care reform, Clinton refused to give up – instead, she joined with Sen. Ted Kennedy to expand health insurance to children by helping to create SCHIP. Kennedy later said of Clinton’s effort: “The children’s health program wouldn’t be in existence today if we didn’t have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.” [AP, 10/05/07; Politifact, 1/6/08]

In 2001, as Senator, Clinton gave her first floor speech on the importance of access to affordable health care and, in 2002 and 2003, she introduced legislation to reduce the cost of health insurance expenses. Clinton introduced the Small Employer Tax Assistance for Health Coverage Act of 2003, which would have allowed small employers a limited credit for employee health insurance expenses. [National Journal’s Congress Daily, 2/13/01; S. 86, introduced 1/7/03; S.2710, 7/9/02]

In her presidential campaign, Clinton has vowed to defend and improve the Affordable Care Act. In stops in Iowa, Clinton said, “I will defend all of those important changes in the Affordable Care Act… And I will work to fix those parts of it that need fixing. That’s the American way. We’re supposed to be the best problem-solvers in the world. Let’s act like it, instead of dividing off into ideological camps where we are hurling insults at each other.” [Clinton Remarks, Capital City Fruit Company Roundtable, 4/15/15; Dubuque House Party, 5/19/15]

Source: www.hillaryclinton.com

 


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