WATCH: Harris says she will grow the Affordable Care Act because ‘Health care should be a right’

Published: Sep 10, 2024 Duration: 00:02:59 Category: News & Politics

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do is maintain and grow the Affordable Care Act, but I, I'll, I'll get to that, Lindsay. I just need to respond to a previous point that the former president has made. I've made very clear my position on fracking, and then this business about taking everyone's guns away. Tim Walls and I are both gun owners. We're not taking anybody's guns away. So stop with the continuous lying about this stuff. As it relates to the Affordable Care Act, understand, just look at the history to know where people stand. When Donald Trump was president 60 times he tried to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. 60 times. I was a senator at the time when I will never forget the early morning hours when it was up for a vote in the United States Senate and the late great John McCain, who you have disparaged. As being you don't like him, you said at the time because he got caught. He was an American hero, the late great John McCain. I will never forget that night walked onto the Senate floor and said, no, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't get rid of the Affordable Care Act. You have no plan. And what the Affordable Care Act has done is eliminate the ability of insurance companies to deny people with preexisting conditions. I don't have to tell the people watching tonight, you remember what that was like? Remember when an insurance company could deny. If a child had asthma, if someone was a breast cancer survivor if a if a grandparent had diabetes and thankfully, as I've been vice president and we over the last 4 years have strengthened the Affordable Care Act. We have allowed for the first time Medicare to negotiate drug prices on behalf of you, the American people. Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He never did. We did. And now we have capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month. Since I've been vice president, we have Cap the cost of prescription medication for seniors at $2000 a year. And when I am president, we will do that for all people understanding that the value I bring to this. Is that access to health care should be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it. And the plan has to be to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, not get rid of it in terms of where Donald Trump stands on that. I want to move to an issue that's important for a lot of a mistake at number one, John McCain fought Obamacare for 10 years, but it wasn't only him, it was all of the Democrats that kept it going and you know what, We could do much better than Obamacare, much less money, but she won't improve private insurance for people, private medical insurance, that's another thing she doesn't want to give people are paying privately for insurance that have worked hard and made money and they want to have private. She wants everybody to be on government insurance where you wait 6 months for an operation that you need to meet President Trump, thank you. We have

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