Steny Hoyer: ObamaCare Is Working

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HOYER: "I’m not going to negotiate frankly with you on television. What I’m going to say though, clearly we need to make sure that it’s affordable for all Americans. There are obviously places where there have been very substantial increases in premiums. There have been a lack of choices in areas. But the Affordable Care Act is working. It’s not working for small businesses in some instances because their premiums are too high and in the individual market. People are struggling to get insurance. So we need to make sure that those parts of the affordable care act which are not working, we would address those and make them better and make them work better. This bill doesn’t even come close to that. As a matter of fact, it goes very hard in the opposite direction. That’s why when you talk about what has happened over the last few months, the affordable care act is supported by Americans than oppose it by a substantial number. It was under water for a long time. But when they started looking at what the affordable care act was doing for them and their families, they said maybe I was wrong. Maybe the affordable care act is better than it was. It’s got the support of just about 50% of America, as opposed to about 40% of America who don’t support it. In addition to that, the most recent poll quinnipiac yesterday said that 56% of Americans polled think we ought to defeat this Republican bill as opposed to 17% who think we ought to pass it. That’s a 3:1 margin. So the conclusion that I have reached that this is a bad bill, that we ought to go back to the drawing board. We need to have bipartisan discussions to make the affordable care act work properly. Do what trump said he wants to do. If President Trump offers a bill that gives every American health insurance that they can afford with better quality, I’m gonna vote for it. He has offered no such bill. All he’s offered is rhetoric."