HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “I introduced a plan to build on Obamacare. Remind everybody, 20 million people got insurance who didn’t have it before. All people with pre-existing conditions were able to be covered…
I’ve added to the Obamacare plan the Biden initiative, which is a public option, Medicare if you want to have Medicare, reducing significantly the price of drugs, deductibles, et cetera, by — made by underwriting the plan to a tune of about $750 billion, and making sure that we’re able to cover everyone who is, in fact, able to be covered…
Here you have 160 million people who negotiated their health care plans with their employer, like many of you have. You may or may not like it. If you don’t like it, you can move into the public option that I propose in my plan. But if you like it, you shouldn’t have — you shouldn’t have Washington dictating to you, you cannot keep the plan you have.”
-Joe Biden as quoted by The Fix team, “Transcript: The December Democratic debate,” washingtonpost.com, Dec. 19, 2019