On Monday, Donald Trump restated what his administration has been arguing in court for months: Senator Susan Collins "knocked out" the health care law with her support for the 2017 GOP tax giveaway. The tax bill paved the way for the Republican lawsuit to strike down the ACA, which will be heard by the Supreme Court one week after Election Day.
After promising Mainers that expanding access to affordable health care would be one of her “top priorities” in the Senate, Collins opposed the Affordable Care Act “from the very beginning” and voted a dozen times to repeal or undermine the health care law. Now, even as the lawsuit she sparked with her vote for the tax bill threatens to cause a 164% increase in the number of uninsured Mainers in the middle of a pandemic, Collins still defends her vote and has maintained that she doesn’t regret it “at all.”
“Senator Collins has not only broken her promise to bolster access to affordable health care, she’s voted consistently to eliminate and undermine the law that generated the largest expansion of health coverage in our nation’s history,” said Maine Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Marra. “Mainers deserve a Senator who actually fights for our health care--Susan Collins has proven that she’s not the woman for the job.”
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