[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 1068-1069]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 AFFORDABLE CARE ACT IS HELPING PEOPLE

  (Ms. BASS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. BASS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support the Affordable Care 
Act and to urge this House to sustain President Obama's veto of the 
legislation to repeal it.
  During our last recess, I visited St. John's Well Child and Family 
Center, an anchor in the south Los Angeles community that provides 
quality health care for the community regardless of the patient's 
ability to pay.
  The Affordable Care Act has enabled St. John's to expand and improve 
its facilities and increase its services, including updating and 
modernizing its children's dental services. This is an example of the 
dental clinic.

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  Because California embraced the law, St. John's is now able to serve 
over 53,000 new patients. Repealing the law would be detrimental. As 
St. John's Executive Director Jim Mangia told me: Repealing the 
Affordable Care Act would strip away health insurance from 26,000 of 
St. John's patients. That is 26,000 patients from that one clinic 
alone.
  Our primary goal in Congress should be helping people, not voting 
away their health insurance.

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