[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 8 (Thursday, January 12, 2017)]
[House]
[Page H453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   REPEAL OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

  (Mr. AGUILAR asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. AGUILAR. Mr. Speaker, for over 6 years, we have watched House 
Republicans attack the Affordable Care Act. The law may not be perfect, 
but Republicans can't ignore the fact that the ACA has allowed 30 
million Americans to access affordable health care.
  Calls and emails have poured into my office from my constituents who 
are begging me to do everything in my power to protect their health 
care and to strengthen the ACA. Earlier this week I received an email 
from Brian in San Bernardino, who shared that his wife didn't have 
insurance before the ACA. When the law went into effect, she had a 
physical, whereby doctors discovered she had ovarian cancer. It was 
caught early and treated, and now she is living healthy in San 
Bernardino. If she had not obtained health insurance through the ACA, 
she wouldn't have had a preventative screening, which saved her life.
  Mr. Speaker, we cannot strip 30 million people of their health care. 
We cannot look people in the eyes and say we are doing everything we 
can to help them if we allow insurance companies to discriminate 
against them and to cap their coverage. I will not compromise their 
health care or our future, and neither should you.

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