Khanna: Dems Passing ACA, Having Sunset for Subsidies Doesn't Mean We Created Health Crisis

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued that the expiration of ACA subsidies that Democrats passed, coupled with the Affordable Care Act Democrats passed doesn’t mean there’s a healthcare crisis of the Democratic Party’s making because “the crisis was that we didn’t have health insurance in this country, that 35-plus million people would go into huge medical debt, that young people were not covered.” And Dems are trying to “strengthen” the ACA but “had to deal with people like Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate” so they couldn’t get a permanent extension of the subsidies.

Co-host Pamela Brown asked, “[T]hese healthcare subsidies, as you mentioned, they are expiring soon, because when Democrats controlled Congress and passed the Inflation Reduction Act, it