record 60 million people are enrolled in the affordable care act and thanks to the law i signed last year, saving millions saving $800 a year in their premiums and by the way, that law was written in the benefit expires in 2025, so my plea to some of you at least in this audience, let s finish the job and make the savings permanent! expand coverage of medicare! , medicare! cheering. look, the medicare! cheering. look, the inflationaryj look, the inflationary reduction act is also the most significant investment ever in climate change, ever. lower utility bills, giving americans jobs, leaving the world to a clean energy and i visited the aftermath of droughts, floods and wildfires from arizona all
out. check it out. hardy congress respond to that debt? they did the right thing and lifted the debt ceiling is up and paid american bills to prevent an economic disaster to the country the tonight i am asking the congress to follow suit and commit here tonight to the fate of the united states of america and that it will not be questioned. some of my republican friends want to take the economy hostage, i get it. unless i agreed to their economic plans. all of you at home should know what those plans. consider making the wealthy pay theirfair plans. consider making the wealthy pay their fair share, some republicans, some republicans want medicare and social security sunset, i am not sure it is a majority.
month. people arejust the cost of insulin at $35 a month. people are just finding out. month. people arejust finding out. i m month. people are just finding out. i m sure you re getting the same calls i am getting. look, there are millions of other americans who are not on medicare, including 200,000 young people with type 1 diabetes who need this insulin to stay alive. let s finish the job this time. let s cap the cost of insulin for everybody at $35. , at $35. cheering. folks. at $35. cheering. folks. big - at $35. cheering. folks, big pharma| at $35. cheering. . folks, big pharma will at $35. cheering. - folks, big pharma will still at $35. cheering. folks, big pharma will still do very well, i promise you all, i promise you that would do very well. this law also only going to affect until 2025, the cost out of pocket drug costs for seniors on medicare at a
stop medicare, i will stop them, i will veto it! stop medicare, i will stop them, iwill veto it! i stop medicare, i will stop them, i will veto it! i will not allow them to take away, not allow them to take away, not tonight will not ever but apparently it is not going to be a problem. next month when i offer my physical plan i will ask my republican friends to lay down their plan as well. let s sit down together and discuss our mutual plans together. let s do that. applause. i together. let s do that. applause. together. let s do that. applause. .., y ., applause. i can tell you, the lan i m applause. i can tell you, the plan i m going applause. i can tell you, the plan i m going to applause. i can tell you, the plan i m going to show- applause. i can tell you, the plan i m going to show you i applause. i can tell you, the| plan i m going to show you will cut the deficit by another $2 trillion and it won t cut a single bit of medicare or social security and in fact, we will exten