Biden blasts GOP health care bill in Washington Post op-ed
Source: Politico
By NEGASSI TESFAMICHAEL 07/17/2017 10:01 AM EDT
mid uncertainty over the future of the Affordable Care Act, former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday slammed the GOP’s efforts to repeal the landmark health care law in a Washington Post op-ed.
Biden chided his former Senate colleagues despite Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to appease undecided senators with an additional $45 billion put into the GOP’s revised health care bill to combat the opioid epidemic. “But my longtime Senate colleague is, I believe, missing the point” Biden wrote. “You can’t take away comprehensive health insurance from people struggling with opioid addiction and then just throw $2 billion or, for that matter, $45 billion their way for treatment.”
Biden said that the days before the Affordable Care Act are not a sustainable model and that the GOP plan would take Americans back to that time.
“The ACA isn’t perfect, but the choices we made when designing the law flowed from a commitment to provide the best possible care to the most people," Biden wrote.
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