so, what we have in the inflation reduction act is a three-year extension of these incredibly powerful, popular tax credits, that allow people to find coverage, oftentimes for less than $10 a month. so, i am imagining your days as a nurse. and encountering people who have affordability struggles with the health care services that you are part of providing for them. [applause] and i assume, in those days, you were thinking, occasionally, as everyone does, gee, if i was in congress, i would is this anything like what you imagined it to be, trying to legislate health care improvements, back when you we re working as a nurse? you know, i didn t anticipate the twists and turns of the legislative process. but i think it is pretty impressive. in one term in congress, to be able to extend tax credits for five years, and thereby reducing the uninsured rate in the united states to the lowest level in u.s. history.
have affordability struggles with the health care services that you are part of providing for them. [applause] and i assume, in those days, you were thinking, occasionally, as everyone does, gee, if i was in congress, i would is this anything like what you imagined it to be, trying to legislate health care improvements, back when you are working as a nurse? you know, i didn t anticipate the twists and turns of the legislative process. but i think it is pretty impressive. i mean, one term in congress, to be able to extend tax credits for five years, and thereby reducing the uninsured rate in the united states to the lowest level in u.s. history. that is what we have done in the last two years. and so, i didn t know that it would take the form of these kinds of tax credits. but i think the impact is something that every nurse in this country can be proud of. eve i think you know by now t any freshman member of the house or the senate, it s kind
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certainly they don t want to take responsibility for it. but it s not going to succeed. the path that they have been advocating for is delusional and it s destructive. house republicans argue that they have already compromised by moving from a request to defund obama care to just asking for a delay. so how do you respond to the claim that they re the only ones looking for middle ground here? well, it s not middle ground to say to 30 million americans that the plan that enables you to get health care is going to be set aside. it s not middle ground to say to our small businesses which will get a much better deal by going to an exchange than they are negotiating by themselves that you have to may a much higher price. it s not fair to individuals who are in the same situation and it s certainly not fair to folks who have pre-existing conditions, who say i will never get insurance unless we have a structure that creates this opportunity and gets rid of these insurance company abuses of