Independent Sen. Angus King said that he is "genuinely puzzled" by what he describes as the Trump Administration's continuing efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.
“Genuinely puzzled about what appears to be an obsession or a mania with removing health insurance from people,” King said. “With keeping people from having health insurance. I just don't get it.”
Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, King said having access to healthcare is a fundamental right.
“I just don't understand why we cannot face the reality that health insurance or health coverage, or access to healthcare, is a fundamental right,” he says.
King has been an ongoing opponent of the Trump Administration's actions on the ACA. He said the Trump administration has refused to defend the law's guarantee of coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, has cut funding for health care navigators, and has eliminated the individual mandate. These actions, he says, all serve to deny health care to more and more Americans.
“Let's talk about fixing it, not continue to undermine it, to what purpose, to a purpose of diminishing health care access to millions and millions of Americans.”
