[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 520]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      HEALTH CARE REPEAL AND JOBS

  (Mr. BACA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BACA. Instead of focusing on creating new jobs and helping middle 
class families, our Republican friends want to turn back the clock. We 
all know this week's vote to repeal and replace the health reform is 
nothing but political fiction, with no intention of doing anything to 
improve health care. It's just a smoke screen. The reality is that a 
repeal of reform will be bad for our economy and worse for American 
families and businesses.
  In my district alone, repealing health care reform would discriminate 
against the 305,000 people who suffer from preexisting conditions--129 
million nationwide. It would eliminate tax credits for 10,000 small 
businesses, kick 5,000 young adults off their parents' insurance 
plans--and 1.2 million nationwide--and it throws more than 5,000 
seniors back into the doughnut hole of higher drug costs--2.7 million 
nationwide.
  Let's stand with American families and say ``yes'' to more jobs and 
``no'' to all efforts to repeal health reform.

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