Issue Position: Improving Healthcare

Issue Position

Access to affordable health care is critical to quality of life in the Capital Region and to the success of American small businesses trying to compete in a global market. The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010, is far from a perfect law. That is why we have to respond to challenges in our health care system and fix the parts of the ACA that don't work while moving forward with the provisions that do. That is a challenge that takes both parties in Washington putting politics aside and working together to strengthen our uniquely American system for millions of patients and providers.

That challenge will not be met by the disastrous American Health Care Act, which was passed with only Republican votes in the House of Representatives on May 4, 2017 without a report from the Congressional Budget Office to tell us how much it will cost or how many people it will kick off the insurance market that the ACA made available. You can read my full take on "Trumpcare" at http://tiny.cc/PaulTonkoHealthcare

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