Thank you, mr. President. I yield the floor. Mr. Prince president , the majority leader says he will move forward this week with about on a straight repeal of the Affordable Care act in its entirety. I dont believe that a majority of senators are willing to support a reckless leap in the dark but that both would mean. Its a vote that would end protections for people with preexisting conditions and would take Health Coverage away from tens of millions of americans, tens of thousands in New Hampshire. It would terminate the Medicaid Expansion that has been critical to siding the Opioid Epidemic in my state in so many states across the country. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, a straight repeal of the Affordable Care act would result in more than 32 Million People losing their Insurance Coverage by 2026. Premiums would roughly double in the individual marketplaces. I urge my republican friends not to go forward with this misguided approach. The idea that they can
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Its ok for you to wake up that day and not feel as good as you did the day before. And thats ok, and ill be there for you. And in turn, they do the same for me. When im going through tough times, the clients know that, and theyll call me, how you doin . You know, you teach them that its ok to feel. Its ok. And the only way that you can do that is to show them that you feel, too. Now that im in school, to get my ged, i eventually want to go to school and be in some kind of peer support like you do. Ok. Now that ive come through the pain and the anguish on the other side, ive grown because of it. Now its like its important to me to help someone else. Its important to me because helping you helps me. Helping someone else makes me feel good, and its part of my recovery. To help someone else keeps me right where i need to be cause i learn from your experiences, and you learn from mine. Leah, im coming back to you with the question of where does one house a peertoPeer Services . What organiz
Its important to me because helping you helps me. Helping someone else makes me feel good, and its part of my recovery. To help someone else keeps me right where i need to be cause i learn from your experiences, and you learn from mine. Leah, im coming back to you with the question of where does one house a peertoPeer Services . What organizational settings are appropriate for peertopeer . Its so diverse, i mean it can, there are peer support groups actually in public State Hospitals. Thats one location. They are sometimes their own peerrun organizations, and the National Empowerment center really highlights the work of these peerrun organizations that are creating their own services through a mixture of, they might receive some federal funding, some state funding, but operate relatively independently. So, you might find those. You have a very Exciting Development called the peer crisis respite, which is almost like a homelike setting. Its a small, tastefully decorated house where peop
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