House Democrats push through first bill in a decade expanding Affordable Care Act

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House Democrats push through first bill in a decade expanding Affordable Care Act

By Amy Goldstein at the Washington Post

June 29, 2020 at 5:20 p.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/house-democrats-push-through-first-bill-in-a-decade-expanding-affordable-care-act/2020/06/29/350d3046-ba0f-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html

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The House Monday passed the first significant expansion of the Affordable Care Act since its birth a decade ago, providing Democrats a high-wattage platform to castigate President Trump for his efforts to overturn the landmark law during a pandemic and an election year.

The 234-179 vote, largely along party lines, was a hollow exercise in terms of any chance the bill would become law and reshape federal health policy. Moments after the debate began, the White House announced the president would veto the legislation if it reached his desk, though a wall of Senate Republican opposition to the measure makes that a moot point.

Still, the vote was laden with political implications. Less than five months before presidential and congressional elections, it forced Republicans to go on the record about the ACA and showed anew the parties’ highly charged ideological differences on health care — an issue that consistently polls as a prime concern among U.S. voters. Democrats portrayed themselves as champions of access to affordable care at a critical time. Republicans characterized the opposing party as authors of a failed law and proponents of tax increases.

Historically, Democrats engender greater public trust than Republicans on their handling of the issue, and arguments that the GOP sought to deprive consumers of health care helped Democrats take the House majority two years ago.

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[soothsayer]

1. Heehee!

[Andy823]

2. That's good

It won't go anywhere once it hits the Senate, but it will show that Democrats have a plan to fix health care, trump and his gang have NOTHING but the same old promise of our plan is coming "very soon" even though they have had years to come up with an actual health plan.!

[Newest Reality]

3. This is not...

This is not at all a good time for Grump and the Rethuglaklans to dig in their heals on the idea of no health care for Americans and no concern for public well being and safety.

This will at least be a clear message that they are also anti-health and reinforce the Death Party they have become, so it has that value and import at least.

Overall, you could say that everything is about the health, (of many kinds) of the people and it is a key and pivotal indicator about the state of our country overall. When that is cast off as trivial or it is sacrificed for ulterior motives and vested interests, you have nothing to rest on concerning a large swath of our population.

Dig away! Dig your heels in stubbornly. It won't be tolerated for long.

[Budi]

4. "that the GOP sought to deprive consumers of health care helped Democrats take the House majority.."

"Historically, Democrats engender greater public trust than Republicans on their handling of the issue, and arguments that the GOP sought to deprive consumers of health care helped Democrats take the House majority two years ago."


You think repubs would have learned in 2018 when their opposition to Health Care & the ACA cost them the chance at a super majority.

And since they gambled their Party's future on Trump, they stand to lose it all in November.

That Republican ship of fools is sinking fast.

It's President Obama's Affordable Health Care Act
, along with VP Biden, Speaker Pelosi & all their united Democrats, who finally gave Americans a sound base to build a health care plan that serves all.
And that was the blue wave that held our Dem House majority.

In 2021 we will begin building from the basic HC that President Obama gave us.
Hopefully, this time, there will be a minority of Republicans to stop, chop, & stall the beneficial policy as they did the last time.

Republican opposition can either get on board for America's people or sit down & be silent.