[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5817]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HELPING SICK AMERICANS NOW ACT

  (Mr. CONYERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to begin our discussion with H.R. 
1549, which will be up tomorrow, Helping Sick Americans Now Act.
  I am not supporting this bill because the bill's proposals are 
counterintuitive to the anticipated outcome of the Prevention and 
Public Health Fund. This legislation strips 4 years of funding from the 
prevention fund to pay for a very short extension of a new enrollment 
in the preexisting condition insurance plan.
  Further, the bill insists on a partisan offset that effectively 
eliminates the Prevention and Public Health Fund through 2016 to, 
instead, reopen the Federal High-Risk Pool Program provided by the 
Affordable Care Act through the end of the year.
  While I support reopening the high-risk pool, I cannot support how 
this bill goes about creating the funding.

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