John Cornyn Encourages People To Sign Up For Obamacare After Fighting To Repeal It – By Jennifer Bendery (Huffington Post) / May 13 2020
“The good news is that if you lose your employer-provided coverage … [you are] eligible to sign up for the Affordable Care Act,” said the Republican senator.
WASHINGTON ― After voting more than a dozen times to repeal the Affordable Care Act and leading Senate Republican efforts to dismantle it, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Monday that the “good news” is that people can sign up for President Barack Obama’s signature health care law if they’ve lost their jobs and need health insurance amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“The good news is that if you lose your employer-provided coverage, which covers about a 180 million Americans, that is a significant life event, which makes you then eligible to sign up for the Affordable Care Act,” Cornyn said in a PBS Austin interview. “As you know, it has a sliding scale of subsidies up to 400% of poverty. So that’s an option for people.”
Here’s a video of the interview. His ACA comments are around the 6-minute mark.
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