WASHINGTON — In Republicans’ ongoing efforts to roll back or hamstring Obamacare, this is probably not what they hoped for in their first Senate hearing on the matter: The Senate’s self-described “democratic socialist” got GOP witnesses to back a key argument for universal health care.
Thursday’s hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions was devoted to the question of moving the full-time work standard under the Affordable Care Act from 30 hours a week to 40 hours, and whether more workers would be hurt by the higher or lower limit.
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Watch Sanders’ remarks above.
Michael McAuliff covers Congress and politics for The Huffington Post. Talk to him on Facebook.
