ZitatCNSNews.com -- At a Congressional Hispanic Caucus news conference in opposition to repealing the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) on Capitol Hill last week, Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-Calif.) said repealing the ACA without a replacement would be going “backwards…to a time where we might as well [have] lived in caves.”
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We can either go backwards, ladies and gentlemen, to a time where we might as well [have] lived in caves without medicine,” he said. “Where a person with asthma couldn't get insurance. Where a family member if they fell ill and got cancer treatment, the family was destitute because they had bills of hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
“And the Affordable Care Act protects every family in America,” said Cardenas. “The most that a family can be charged, even if they used a million dollars worth of healthcare coverage is $13,000 a year. They don't have to mortgage the home. They don't have to give up on their college education for their children. They are protected, with their health and financially. That's the Affordable Care Act.”
“Shame on the Republicans for wanting to get rid of it and go backwards as a nation,” said the congressman