[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 100 (Friday, June 15, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5204]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                OPPOSING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ACA SABOTAGE

  (Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, President Trump's cruel attempt 
to sabotage affordable healthcare access for more than 130 million 
Americans is inhumane and, mark my words, deadly.
  If Trump has his way, anyone who has survived or lives with cancer, 
asthma, diabetes, mental health issues, or virtually any other medical 
conditions that you can think of, and many that you can't, will risk 
losing their health coverage. That is because the President is bent on 
dismantling the Affordable Care Act, which protects Americans with 
preexisting conditions.
  Before the ACA, insurance companies refused coverage or charged 
people more with these commonplace maladies. They even charged women 
more just for being women.
  I am a woman, and I also beat breast cancer. And it sickens me to 
think of the anxiety and pain this President is causing my sister 
survivors right now with this threat. It is absurd, it is 
discriminatory, and it is, frankly, monstrous.
  Every time it appears that the reckless disregard for people's lives 
shown by this administration and their Republican enablers in Congress 
couldn't possibly get any worse, they find a new low.
  Mr. Speaker, there are too many real problems facing Americans today. 
This President and his party need to stop creating deadly new ones.

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