Biden: GOP Health Bill Will Make Americans 'Start Worrying Again'

Biden: GOP Health Bill Will Make Americans 'Start Worrying Again'

"They want to drag us back to a time — not all that long ago — when Americans could be denied basic healthcare because they were unable to afford it," Biden wrote.

He said that a healthcare system should not be built around emergency room visits because "that's not a sustainable model, and we're better than that."

The former vice president noted that the original Senate bill contained $2 billion to cover mental health and substance abuse, which he called a "drop in the bucket." Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell increased that number to $45 billion, but Biden said he is "missing the point."

The Senate bill cannot be fixed before it gets to a vote, Biden said, and "by denying that all Americans have a right to healthcare, it's fundamentally flawed."