Repeal ObamaCare, and students will no longer "graduate on time," warned the former secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius.
Worse, without ObamaCare, more Americans will live "under a bridge in our cities" because they can't access mental health counseling, Sebelius added.
The former HHS secretary, who left her post under a cloud of controversy after badly botching the rollout of ObamaCare's infamous online marketplaces, appeared Friday on MSNBC to fight for the preservation of the controversial law.
Sebelius warned that if ObamaCare is repealed and 20 million Americans opt out of Medicaid, society will pay a heavy cost.
"We pay more because our kids who don’t have insurance aren’t as well prepared to be in school, they don’t graduate on time," she claimed. "So, as a society, you bet the cost is there, but I would say we don’t often count the costs of who’s sitting in jails, who with a little opioid treatments could actually be productive members. Who’s under a bridge in our cities and towns because they need some mental health counseling?"
In appealing for ObamaCare's preservation, Sebelius also repeated a debunked claim that Planned Parenthood provided "cancer screenings" for women.
"We know women will lose their choice of health care providers," she said. "For millions of people around the country, they choose a Planned Parenthood provider for cancer screenings and preventive care. That’s going to be gone."
Sebelius also urged Republicans to help subsidize failing ObamaCare markets, saying that failing to do so means "People in Congress" are "playing beat the clock with people’s lives."