Joe Biden Returns To D.C. To Rally Democrats In Support Of Obamacare
Former Vice President Joe Biden made his first big public appearance on Wednesday leading a rally of Democrats in Washington D.C. to keep fighting to protect Obamacare.
Biden appeared on the Capitol steps alongside Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Polosi at a rally marking the seventh anniversary of Obamacare’s signing.
Biden’s visit to D.C. also comes one day before Republicans are set to vote on their Obamacare replacement bill which the Congressional Budget Office found will cause 24 million people to lose their insurance.
“You heard eloquent statements from those who have benefits and will be devoted by the repeal of the Affordable Care Act,” Biden said rallying Democrats.
“To me, what the ACA was all about … it means an awful lot of people that I grew up with are able to go to bed now and not stare at the ceiling and wonder what happens if my wife develops breast cancer or I get a heart attack.”
Here are some of Biden’s remarks:
There’s nothing fundamentally changed in the Republican Party in the last 12-15 years except they got a president now who’s a little more colorful. But look, folks here’s the deal, when you cut to the chase, we’re talking about eliminating close to a trillion dollars in benefits that go to people to be able to meet the commitment that we made to people that healthcare is a right, and transferring that to the wealthy.
That’s what this is all about. It’s about a transfer tax, basically.
Eliminating the Affordable Care Act means eliminating an awful lot of things that people badly need in return for what? So the .9 percent in taxes for people making over 250,000 couples can be returned to them? So drug companies and insurance companies and medical device companies can benefit? It’s a transfer of about a trillion dollars to those folks out there from everybody in the country. That’s what this is, and that’s classic Republican politics. This is a tax bill to them.
