Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s denial of climate change science is breathtakingly dangerous, even more so since he represents a state that is battling rising seas, more CAT 4 and CAT 5 hurricanes, ocean acidification and fresh water shortages.
Rubio’s harmful actions on another front made headlines again last week when the Supreme Court essentially called him out in an 8-1 ruling.
Raw Story logged this update about Marco Rubio's longtime quest to destroy Obamacare.
Republicans and conservatives have complained that the ACA was not "affordable" -- yet premium increases had much to do with Rubio's tactic of eliminating "risk corridors" in the bill.
From a piece I wrote that was published in Blue Oregon nine days after the 2016 election:
"In 2010, 16% of Americans did not have health insurance; today that figure is 8.6%. Premiums increased for 2017, but that could have been alleviated had Senator Marco Rubio not stripped funding for ‘risk corridors’ in the Affordable Care Act. Risk corridors were designed to help insurance companies absorb the cost of more sick people, so they could keep premiums affordable until the marketplace attained stability. Rubio claimed they were an insurance industry bailout (Politifact rated that ‘mostly false’). Risk corridors were a key financing mechanism of the law; Rubio and other Republicans purposefully eliminated them to hasten the demise of Obama’s signature achievement."
Coronavirus has dominated the news, and rightly so, but let’s not forget which party — and especially which U.S. senator — has been working overtime to deny quality, affordable health coverage for ALL Americans.