Murphy: Republicans Have No Plan for What Happens If the Affordable Care Act Is Overturned
One week after the
"It is mere fantasy to think that we can reproduce the protections in the Affordable Care Act if we're not talking about it ahead of time," said Murphy. "So I'm just coming back down to the floor today, as I have several times in the last few months, to ask my Republican colleagues: either withdraw your support for this lawsuit, stop the administration from being able to pursue it in court, or start a serious discussion about how you are going to protect care for everyone that has it today."
Murphy added, "If [the lawsuit] succeeds, as many
The full text of Murphy's remarks is below:
"I come to the floor today to ask my colleagues a simple question. There is a lawsuit that is proceeding through the court system right now that has succeeded at the district court level, that has had a hearing at the appellate court level and may be speeding towards the
"I served in both the House and the
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"Now, likely if that's the case the judgment will ultimately be rendered by the
"But it is mere fantasy to think that we can reproduce the protections in the Affordable Care Act if we're not talking about it ahead of time. And so I'm just coming back down to the floor today, as I have several times in the last few months to ask my Republican colleagues either withdraw your support for this lawsuit, stop the administration from being able to pursue it in court, or start a serious discussion about how you are going to protect care for everyone that has it today. Not a handful of people that have it today, but all the people who have it today while this lawsuit is moving through the system.
"My Republican colleagues have been queried as to whether they support this lawsuit or not. And the answers are all over the map, which tells you once again that nobody on the Republican side has really thought this one through one Republican senator says 'I actually don't think the courts are eventually ever going to strike it down,' another says 'I'm ready for the lawsuit to succeed. I would love to go back in and actually deal with health care again,' another one says 'Do I hope the lawsuit succeeds? I do,' another says 'I can't say I hope it succeeds. I think the strategy from here on that I've adopted in my own mind is repair' another says 'my hope and belief is the
"We can't pass a budget through
"So that's why I'm down on the floor today. I'm going to keep on bringing this up because I just can't accept this world in which we live in today, in which half of this chamber is just sort of boxing their ears and closing their eyes to this legal strategy. If it succeeds, as many
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