Healthcare need not be partisan issue, says Biden

Washington [US], November 11 (ANI): US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday slammed “far-right ideologues” for their efforts to invalidate the Affordable Care Act, and stated that healthcare should not be a partisan issue, but a human issue.
“This doesn’t need to be a partisan issue. It’s a human issue. It affects every single American family. We can’t subvert the growing consensus of the American people based on the argument put forward to invalidate the law,” said Biden, while addressing the media from Wilmington, Delaware.
Biden repeatedly asserted the getting rid of the law will take many health benefits away from the people of the US.
“Twice, the Supreme Court has upheld the landmark law, in 2012 and again in 2015. In the Congress, expressing the popular will of the American people on a bipartisan basis, has rejected numerous attempts, numerous efforts by President Trump to erase the law. Now in the middle of a deadly pandemic, that has infected 10 million Americans, nearly one in every 32 Americans, often with devastating consequences, these ideologues are once again trying to strip health coverage away from people,” said Biden.

Biden alleged that the goal of the outgoing administration was to see the Act fall.
“Now I’m not naive about the fact that health care is an issue that has divided Americans in the past, but the truth is the American people are more united on this issue today than they are divided,” he said.
Earlier, Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris on Tuesday voiced against taking down the Affordable Care Act in the US, saying the removal of the Act will take the country ‘backwards’.
According to CNN, the Supreme Court justices on Tuesday heard oral arguments in the case that seeks to overturn the landmark health reform law.
The Trump administration and several Republican-led states are asking the court to strike down the law, 10 years after it was passed, potentially impacting millions of Americans.

Each vote for Biden states that health care should be a right, not privilege: Kamala Harris

US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Tuesday reiterated her stand on the Affordable Care Act, saying that every vote for President-elect Joe Biden in the 2020 elections was a statement that health care should be a right and not a privilege.
“We just held an election, and our country made a clear choice: each vote for @JoeBiden was a statement that health care should be a right–not a privilege. And we won that election decisively, with more votes than have ever been cast in American history,” Kamala tweeted.
According to CNN, these remarks come amid Donald Trump‘s reluctance to admit defeat in the Presidential polls and his administration effort to undo former President Barack Obama’s signature health law.
In the past, Biden has promised to start working with US Congress to implement his health care agenda once he will get elected. However, Biden is likely to take office on January 20, there is little he can do, till then.

Earlier today, Kamala Harris spoke out against taking down the Affordable Care Act in the US, saying dismantling the Act would take the country ‘backwards’.
During remarks on Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware, Harris said, “I know we all know that we just had an election in America. An election where health care was very much on the ballot. Our country had a clear choice in this election. Each and every vote for Joe Biden was a statement that health care in America should be a right and not a privilege. Each and every vote for Joe Biden was a vote to protect and expand the Affordable Care Act.”
Prior to Harris’s remarks, Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday from opponents of the health care programme, who argued the 10-year-old statute was rendered unconstitutional in its entirety when Congress dialled down to zero a penalty on those remaining uninsured.
Speaking on the SC’s hearing, Kamala had further stated that, “Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could strike down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety. If the SC agrees with the opponents of the act, their decision could take health care away from 20 million Americans. It could take away protections from more than 100 million people with pre-existing conditions in our country, and hurt the millions of Americans who have come to rely on the Affordable Care Act, getting rid of the Affordable Care Act will take us backwards.”
The Trump administration and several Republican-led states are asking the court to strike down the law, 10 years after it was passed, potentially impacting millions of Americans. (ANI)