Biden: Coronavirus shows why conservatives should drop ObamaCare challenge

[RandySF]

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday called on the Trump administration to drop an ongoing lawsuit seeking to throw out the Affordable Care Act, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

“At a time of national emergency, which is laying bare the existing vulnerabilities in our public health infrastructure, it is unconscionable that you are continuing to pursue a lawsuit designed to strip millions of Americans of their health insurance and protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the ban on insurers denying coverage or raising premiums due to pre-existing conditions,” Biden said in a letter to the president, Axios reported.

The lawsuit, Biden wrote, should not proceed while Americans are “anxious and afraid about the impact the deadly COVID-19 pandemic is already having on their lives, their families, and their ability to pay their bills.”

Biden’s letter comes on the 10th anniversary of then-President Obama signing the ACA into law, and the same month that the Supreme Court announced it will hear the challenge later this year, possibly either just before or slightly after November's presidential election.





https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/488966-biden-coronavirus-shows-why-conservatives-should-drop-obamacare-challenge

[treestar]

1. Can't imagine that Dotard doing this

but it is a good thought.

[still_one]

3. He won't

[Ohiogal]

2. Amen, Joe.

[DarthDem]

4. Well done, Joe!

I think we can all agree now that universal health care is an idea whose time has come. Even Congressional Republicans? No? Bueller?

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Biden seems to misunderstand that the conservatives think that if you get sick...

you should just die or not as is the natural course of events.

Dying of this virus just means you are weak and a loser.