ICYMI: On The Briefing with Jen Psaki, Kelly Calls on House Republicans to Protect American’s Health Care
In case you missed it, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly spoke with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki to call on House Republicans to get back to Washington D.C. to end that chaos that’s threatening Americans’ health care.
Sen. Kelly speaks to Jen Psaki on The Briefing with Jen Psaki.
Watch the full interview here. See key excepts below:
On the importance of House Republicans getting back to work…
“He doesn’t want to deal with this. He also doesn’t want to deal with the Epstein issues. He doesn’t want to swear in Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election that’s been certified. […] So essentially, the Speaker of the House doesn’t want to do his job right now. So that has to happen first. And I think it’s important for the President to see what the impact is on real people. I mean, this is going to hurt millions of people who are going to wind up being, you know, one illness or one accident away from bankruptcy.”
On the real people skyrocketing health care costs would affect…
“And I’ve talked to people all across my state. I talked to three more today. I talked to some last week. So, this woman, Robin, Northern Arizona, I talked about her on Fox. Now she could see her premium go from $250 a month to over $1,000 a month. And she said, ‘Hey, I’m not looking for a handout. I’m just looking for a hand up.’ […]
I was talking to another woman, I think her name was Vivian, today, who said she just wants to be able to stay healthy. That’s all she wants out of this. And she realizes that if her premium goes from $250 a month, and if it doubles, which is what the expectation is for her, it’s unaffordable. And these folks are often small business owners, or they have multiple jobs, and they don’t get health insurance for their jobs, but they’re hard-working people.”
On Trump’s threat not to pay furloughed workers…
“I think they don’t care about working class people, not military, not anyone. I don’t think they’re really looking out for people. I think they look out for people in Donald Trump’s orbit. I hope he realizes that he is the one that signed the law that requires that they get backpay. So, if he doesn’t give them back, pay the furloughed workers, not only is he breaking the law, he’s breaking the law that he signed as president in his first term.”
