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Repeal of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Floor Speech

Date: May 16, 2013
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health Insurance

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Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the Patients' Rights Repeal Act.

As some of my colleagues on the other side prepare to vote in favor of this legislation, I want to make sure that the American people know that they are taking 13 million Americans' rebates that they got from insurance companies last summer, totaling at least $1.1 million.

They will be voting to repudiate the fact that beginning last summer, millions of women began receiving free coverage for preventive services.

They will be voting to take away the fact that 17 million children with preexisting conditions can no longer be denied coverage by insurers.

And they will be voting to take away the coverage of 6.6 million young adults, who, up to age 26, are able to be on their parents' insurance coverage, half of whom without it would have no coverage at all.

They will actually be voting, Madam Speaker, to take America's health care backwards. We can't afford to go there.

I urge that we vote ``no.''

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