Ve President-elect Kamala Harris is delivering remarks now from Wilmington, Delaware, on the Affordable Care Act.
“If the Supreme Court agrees with the opponents of the act, their decision could take health care away from 20 million Americans. It could take away protections from more than 100 million people with pre-existing conditions in our country, and hurt the millions of Americans who have come to rely on the Affordable Care Act, getting rid of the Affordable Care Act will take us backwards,” Harris said.
“This is all happening when our country is suffering through a pandemic that has claimed more than 238,000 lives, and we all know that if the Affordable Care Act is struck down communities of color would be hit particularly hard,” Harris continued.
President-elect Joe Biden, who campaigned on a promise to keep and build on Obamacare, is expected to speak soon as well.
The speech comes the day Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments in the case that seeks to overturn the landmark health reform law.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested Tuesday that it wasn’t the Supreme Court’s role to invalidate the entire sprawling, 900-page Affordable Care Act, even if one or more provisions are deemed unconstitutional, signaling the key parts of Obamacare will survive the latest court challenge.
The Trump administration and several Republican-led states are asking the court to strike down the law, 10 years after it was passed, potentially impacting millions of Americans.
Read more about the oral arguments today in the Supreme Court here.
Hear Vice President-elect Kamala Harris: