[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 2, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2974]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 WE COULD LOSE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, in the 2016 election, as the candidate 
who now is in the Oval Office said that ObamaCare is a disaster, the 
question was asked: What do you have to lose?
  Well, now we know. It is the Affordable Care Act, which has provided 
20 million Americans, for the first time, with security and peace of 
mind in healthcare.
  I rise to support H. Res. 271, and I thank the gentleman from Texas, 
my colleague, Colin Allred, because we know that the Texas case is the 
epicenter of destruction of the Affordable Care Act.
  The administration's flip on us to now be against the position of 
survival of the Affordable Care Act tells us we have a lot to lose: 1.8 
million Texans have gained coverage; 1.1 million Texans have purchased 
high-quality marketplace coverage; 913,000 individual Texans have 
received financial assistance.
  More importantly, there are 1.1 million Texans who have insurance. If 
all the States adopted ACA's Medicaid, we would have that as well. We 
did not do it.
  But, as well, Texans have no lifetime caps. They have the ability to 
have their children on their health insurance plans.
  This is a tragedy. Mr. Speaker, I condemn the action of the 
administration in filing their opposition to the Affordable Care Act.

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