It’s part of campaign to smoke out and then attack unpopular Republican cuts.
But now Biden is amplifying his message about Republican bad intent to warn of threats to other key federal programs, the WashingtonToday, during a trip to Virginia Beach, President Biden pivoted his attack on House Republicans as they remain in a standoff over raising the debt ceiling.
On a stage surrounded by signs calling for “affordable health care,” Biden pointed to the dozens of attempts Republicans have made to repeal the ACA. “If MAGA Republicans try to take away people’s health care by gutting Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act,” the president said. “I will stop them.”challenging the House GOP to disclose its plans for Obamacare and Medicaid, the programs they incessantly if unsuccessfully went after for much of the Trump administration.
More than 100 million people with pre-existing health conditions could lose critical protections … Up to 24 million people could lose protection against catastrophic medical bills … Tens of millions of people could be at risk of lifetime benefit caps … Millions of people could lose free preventive care … Over $1,000 average increase in medical debt for millions covered through Medicaid expansion.40 million people’s health insurance coverage would be at risk.
These arguments were pretty effective in the fight to stop the repeal of Obamacare, and they haven’t gotten any weaker with time. So it’s not just going to be old folks on Social Security and Medicare who will be hearing often from the president and his surrogates as the debt-limit fight and the 2024 campaign proceed. It will be the many millions of people relying on Obamacare health-insurance regulations and subsidies and on Medicaid benefits .
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