WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
In case you missed it, Aaron Lehman, a fifth-generation farmer from Polk County, Iowa, and Dan Jacobs, a chef and restaurant owner from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, testified yesterday about the importance of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and called for the extension of enhanced premium tax credits for marketplace plans at a hearing in the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI).
The hearing, convened by Senate Republicans before they voted to allow health care premiums to skyrocket for millions of Americans, was aimed at undermining the ACA and weakening protections for patients with marketplace plans. U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D...