[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 18110]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        DO NOT REPEAL OBAMACARE

  (Mr. HIMES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, now that the notorious problems with the ACA 
Web site healthcare.gov appear to be largely behind us, it is important 
that we cut through the partisan noise and look at some facts.
  One fact is that in 2 days--Sunday and Monday alone--almost 30,000 
Americans have gone to healthcare.gov to sign up for health insurance. 
Many of these families are families with preexisting conditions that 
would have no way to get health insurance other than healthcare.gov and 
the ACA.
  In my own State of Connecticut, with less than 1 percent of the 
American population, 22,000 families have signed up for health 
insurance.
  Mr. Speaker, from the President down, we were concerned by people 
losing their health care plans in the rather small individual market. 
But it is important for the American people to understand that when 
they hear the word ``repeal,'' they need to understand that repeal 
means that the tens of thousands, the hundreds of thousands, the 
millions of Americans who will get insurance because of the ACA will 
lose it.
  Millions of Americans will lose their new-found insurance if this 
word ``repeal'' ever becomes law. That is not right; and on that, I 
think we should agree.

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