Democrats are using the health-care debate as a 2020 warm-up as Republicans accuse them of thwarting bipartisanship.
By Amy Goldstein Amy Goldstein Reporter covering health-care policy and other social policy issues Email Bio Follow May 16 at 7:44 PM House Democrats pushed through legislation Thursday to lower prescription drug prices, strengthen the Affordable Care Act and — most significantly — position themselves as the party on the side of health-care consumers as the 2020 election approaches.
And with no plan in the Senate to consider the legislation, and no chance that President Trump would sign it if the Senate ever did, House Democrats employed Thursday’s debate to demonize Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , as well as the White House. The legislation also would reverse steps the administration has taken to lessen attention on enrollment in the ACA’s insurance marketplaces, restoring funding for advertising and other outreach activities and for “navigators” in grass-roots groups that help people sign up for coverage.
Protecting the ACA has been rising in importance, particularly among women and swing voters, Lake said, as Trump in recent months reprised his vow to repeal it — an effort for which congressional Republicans express little enthusiasm after failing two years ago — and as the Justice Department argued that the entire law is unconstitutional in a Texas lawsuit now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. , whose panel approved the seven individual bills woven into the package, called Thursday’s vote “a big step in our commitment to deliver on our promise to make health care and prescription drugs more affordable.”
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