Fix the parts of the Affordable Care Act that do not work while keeping the provisions that do.

Paul Tonko · New York · Democratic

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Occurrences

That is why we have to respond to challenges in our healthcare system and fix the parts of the ACA that don’t work while moving forward with the provisions that do.

Commits to improving the ACA by repairing its broken parts and preserving the parts that work.

Issues
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Strengthening health care and making the Affordable Care Act work for everyone

Reiterates support for improving the ACA and expanding health care access.

Meet Paul
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Evidence

Congressman Paul Tonko is fulfilling his campaign promise by making his first legislative action in this session of Congress to stand up for the middle class. Congressman Tonko today offered an amendment to the budget-busting health care repeal effort that adds a robust public option and preserves the exchanges.

Tonko publicly framed an ACA-related amendment as campaign-promise fulfillment, but it was an amendment to a repeal bill and not a final enacted fix to the ACA.

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CONGRESSMAN TONKO TAKES ACTION AGAINST REPUBLICAN EFFORT TO REPEAL HEALTH CARE REFORM | U.S. Representative Paul Tonko
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Congressman Paul Tonko cosponsored sweeping new health care legislation today that will lower New Yorkers’ health insurance premiums, crack down on junk health insurance plans, strengthen protections for people with pre-existing conditions, and reverse the Trump Administration’s health care sabotage. The bill would strengthen tax credits in the Marketplace and provide funding for reinsurance.

Tonko backed a concrete ACA-repair bill that targeted premiums, subsidies, and pre-existing-condition protections, showing continued effort to fix parts of the law.

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Tonko Co-Sponsors Bill to Lower Healthcare Costs, Safeguard Pre-existing Conditions | U.S. Representative Paul Tonko
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Vote Question: On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment. American Rescue Plan Act. Status: Passed. Tonko ... Yea.

Tonko voted for the American Rescue Plan Act, which became law and expanded ACA premium assistance.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Roll Call 72 | H.R. 1319 | American Rescue Plan Act
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SEC. 9661. IMPROVING AFFORDABILITY BY EXPANDING PREMIUM ASSISTANCE FOR CONSUMERS. SEC. 9662. Temporary modification of limitations on reconciliation of tax credits ... SEC. 9663. Application of premium tax credit in case of individuals receiving unemployment compensation during 2021.

The enacted ARPA text made a direct ACA change by expanding premium tax credit assistance, which is a concrete partial fix to the law.

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American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 | GovInfo
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Assessments

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Tonko supported and voted for enacted federal legislation, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, that directly amended the ACA by expanding premium tax credit assistance and related affordability provisions. That counts as a concrete ACA repair while preserving the law. However, the promise was broad and implied fixing the ACA's nonworking parts generally; the evidence shows targeted affordability fixes and additional unsuccessful repair efforts, not a comprehensive fulfillment of the full promise. Because Tonko was in federal office when the relevant ACA changes passed, timing is same_term.

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Tonko did not fully deliver the broad promise to fix all nonworking parts of the Affordable Care Act while preserving the rest, but there is enacted evidence of a concrete ACA repair: the American Rescue Plan Act expanded premium tax credit assistance, and Tonko voted for it. Earlier ACA-repair bills and amendments show additional effort, but they do not amount to full delivery of the broader promise.

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