GOP Senate Candidate Ron Hanks Brags He Would Repeal ACA
“More than 500,000 Coloradans have gained access to health care coverage through Medicaid expansion”
In new audio reported by the Colorado Times Recorder, leading GOP Senate candidate and insurrectionist Ron Hanks said that he would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which could strip health care coverage from more than 500,000 Coloradans.
Hanks is wooing extreme conservatives by pledging to get rid of the ACA and Joe O’ Dea will have to answer for the Republican agenda.
“Coloradans, especially those who rely on the Affordable Care Act, are seeing how right wing extremist Ron Hanks is bragging about how he would strip away their health care coverage and spike their costs. Now the spotlight turns to O’Dea, who will be forced to defend his party’s agenda of overturning the ACA and making health care less affordable for hardworking Coloradans.” – Colorado Democratic Party spokesperson Nico Delgado
Read more from the Colorado Times Recorder:
U.S. Senate candidate and state Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Cañon City) says he would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) if he was elected to be Colorado’s next senator.
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Hanks is a QAnon and election-fraud conspiracy theorist. He crossed police barriers while attending the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Last year, as a member of Colorado’s House of Representatives, Hanks made racist comments downplaying the Three/Fifths Compromise.
As of earlier this month, Hanks is one of two Republican nominees on the GOP primary ballot for U.S. Senate hoping to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO).
Bennet voted in support of the ACA in 2009, his first year in the U.S. Senate, and has repeatedly defended Obamacare during his time in office. Bennet applauded the U.S. Supreme Court for upholding the ACA in 2021. In 2019, he introduced legislation to expand the program.
Since the implementation of the ACA, Colorado has received approximately $10 billion in federal funds to pay for coverage under Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion provision, according to the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, which administrates the state’s public health care programs.
More than 500,000 Coloradans have gained access to health care coverage through Medicaid expansion. If the ACA were completely repealed health care experts claim that most of those Coloradans would become uninsured.