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Pelosi: If Hillary Had Won, I’d Have Gone Home; I Had to Stay to Protect ObamaCare

‘I could go home, there’s my nine grandchildren, if they wanted me to be there’
By Grabien Staff

TRANSCRIPT:

CUOMO: “All right welcome back to the CNN town hall, we have the Democratic House leader, Nancy Pelosi, we have been getting through a lot of topics. There’s another big issue. Healthcare. Let’s bring in Angela Purtan, a cancer survivor. What’s your question.”
PURTAN: “Good evening, Leader Pelosi, I was wondering as a teen cancer was wondering as a teen cancer survivor and as someone who lost a family member to cancer because they were under insured. How will you and House Democrats ensure health care as a human right and not just through the midterm elections?”
PELOSI: “Well, I’m very proud of — I’m sorry for your family’s loss and thank you, thank God that you survived, we’ll pray for you, with your permission.”
PERTA: “Thank you.”
PELOSI: “I’m very very proud of the Affordable Care Act. When we pass that bill it was an opportunity of a generation for us to stand with those who did Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and now the Affordable Care Act. It was a compromise, we knew we had to improve it as we went Medicaid and now the Affordable Care Act. It was a compromise, we knew we had to improve it as we went along and we still have to do that. But, our goal is that everyone will have access to affordable care. What the administration has done is to make changes that are going to make premiums more expensive and that is going in the wrong direction. We spent lots of money on research in our country at the national institutes of health. research in our country at the national institutes of health. We believe that those biblical powers to cure should be available to everyone and that powers to cure should be available to everyone and that means everyone should have access in their affordable way to have healthcare. To your question earlier, one of the reasons I stayed, I saw that we had Democratic president, a woman at the table, I could go home, there’s my nine grandchildren, if they wanted me to be there that is. They sometimes have plans of their own. But we didn’t win, it wasn’t a woman at the table. More importantly I knew I had to stay there to protect the Affordable Care Act and that is my mission. my mission. And so — and so we know what we need to do to stabilize the markets, we know what we need to do to make it more affordable and more universally, and what the administration is doing, sabotage, sabotage over again and that’s real unfortunately. This is not just about good healthcare, affordable healthcare, it’s about a health America, it’s about prevention, nutrition, wellness, about so many thing, but it’s also a recognition that healthcare is a America, it’s about prevention, nutrition, wellness, about so many thing, but it’s also a recognition that healthcare is a America, it’s about prevention, nutrition, wellness, about so many thing, but it’s also a recognition that healthcare is a right not a privilege. I’ll go further and say that the most privilege person in America with all the resources and world, his or her health has a with all the resources and world, his or her health has a better chance of about best if the the poorest person in our better chance of about best if the the poorest person in our country has access to healthcare.”

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