Rep. Schakowsky Votes to Enhance Affordable Care Act and Against GOP Health Care Sabotage
"I would think that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would get tired of trying to take health care away from Americans, particularly right now,"
A fact sheet on the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act is available here https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/Affordable%20Care%20Enhancement%20Act%20-%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf. The bill:
* significantly increases the ACA's affordability subsidies so that no person will pay more than 8.5 percent of their income on a silver plan in the Marketplaces;
* expands coverage and pushes hold-out states to adopt Medicaid expansion;
* negotiates lower prescription drug prices so that Americans no longer have to pay more for our medicines than Big Pharma charges for the same drugs overseas;
* cracks down on junk plans and strengthens protections for people with pre-existing conditions; and
* combats inequity in health coverage faced by communities of color--particularly the Black maternal mortality epidemic--by expanding Medicaid coverage to one-year postpartum.
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* A new report (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/news/2020/06/24/486768/health-care-repeal-lawsuit-strip-coverage-23-million-americans/) from the
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