[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17619]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             GOOD THINGS HAPPENING WITH HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. HUFFMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, some of my colleagues want to go back to 
the old way of doing business on health insurance. We can't go back to 
the days when people with preexisting conditions were denied coverage 
and women were asked to pay more simply because they are women.
  We know the ACA rollout has not been perfect. We knew all along a 
reform of this magnitude would require some adaptive management. It 
happened with Social Security and Medicare, but we worked together to 
improve those cornerstones of our social safety net, not tear them 
down.
  So let's work to fix the problems of the ACA, but let's tell the 
whole story, including the good parts of this law. In California, we 
are on track to meet our enrollment goals--tens of thousands of people 
already enrolled. I am hearing countless good news stories about the 
ACA: a mom whose son was hospitalized with a brain tumor who would have 
hit a lifetime cap, but now they have coverage and they can focus on 
that child's recovery; a constituent in Trinity County who just emailed 
me--he and his wife are buying a car with the savings they are 
achieving thanks to the ACA. There are dozens and dozens more success 
stories because of this law.
  I hope my Republican colleagues will join in fixing the problems with 
this law and give it a chance to work. There are too many good things 
happening because of health care reform to go back to the old way of 
doing business.

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