Senator Joe Manchin

And he was sitting there and I came through the hallway and I said, John, listen, I'm not crazy about this Affordable Care Act the way you have to be forced to buy a product.

Whether you like or not, you can't shop it and you're fine if you don't.

the penalties, makes no sense.

I said, but John, if the Republicans have anything they can give us, I probably support it and vote for it.

They don't have anything to replace it with.

And what it did do, it helped poor working people

that were using the emergency room and were using workers' compensation for the only deliveries that they had for their healthcare.

And in preexisting condition, we stopped that from being eliminated from the process so people could get, for the first time, any type of care.

So that was good, but somebody had to pay for it.

So they switched it.

Once you got above the 150 percentile of poverty, then you were hit pretty hard to pay for what we're giving away on this end.

That means you have a broken system.

Sooner or later, you got to fix the system.

And no one was willing to fix it.

They're just moving it around.

So the Democrats, when COVID hit, hot dog, that's our time to shine now.

Let's go ahead.

And man, they went to 400% and even greater.

Republicans are saying, can't we just get back, which is a normal thing.

Can you get back to pre-COVID?