Cortez Masto launches 2022 re-election bid

With a message largely focused on providing better access to health care, immigration reform and helping Nevada rebound from the pandemic-triggered recession, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) officially announced her bid for a second term Wednesday.

In a video announcing her campaign, Cortez Masto highlighted her vote to fend off a 2017 GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

“I have fought again and again to make health care affordable for all Americans, including casting a critical vote to protect the Affordable Care Act when Republicans were so close to repealing it,” Cortez Masto said.

Enacted in 2010, the sweeping health care law was designed to insure more people, including expanding Medicaid eligibility, establishing insurance exchanges and requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing medical conditions. Repeal of the ACA would have affected 1.2 million Silver State residents with pre-existing conditions and 371,000 who were covered because of the expansion of Medicaid.

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