Gwen Graham in 2018 FL Governor's race

On Health Care: Apply ObamaCare to full-time workers, not 30 hours per week

Graham campaigned and served as a centrist, nonpartisan congresswoman. She worked hard not to allow Republicans to associate her with the Affordable Care Act. "Both parties got it wrong," she said in a TV ad during her campaign against U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland in 2014. "Democrats bit off more than they could chew, while Republicans and Congressman Southerland voted over 50 times to let insurance companies keep charging too much and denying you care."

She was one of a dozen Democrats to vote for the 2015 Save American Workers Act that would have raised ObamaCare's definition of a full-time employee from 30 hours a week to 40. Graham was one of two freshman Democrats to co-sponsor that bill, which Obama vowed to veto and the Congressional Budget Office said would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 500,000 and push more people out of employer-based coverage.

Source: Tampa Bay Times on 2018 Florida gubernatorial race Apr 4, 2017

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