A senior advisor to President Joe Biden, Cedric Richmond, said that coronavirus pandemic would have been worse if not for the Affordable Care Act, which turned 11 this year. 'It would have been disastrous,' Richmond told DC Today host Del Walters. 'it's a disaster now. We've lost over 540,000 Americans; over 30 million people contracted the virus.' Richmond said that he hopes the ACA is a permanent part of American history, adding that its passage has been a game-changer for states, such as Louisiana, which, thanks to the ACA, didn't lose any rural hospitals and could insure half a million […]
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