You may want to look up and see that we have had some changes here. Mr. Wallace has decided to become a republican and mr. Woodall would be a democrat. Changes to the republican party. Changes to the Democrat Party for sure. Committee wethe want to extend a very special to ms. Pelosi. Weve been working since 10 00 a. M. And your members are not even winded. Were delighted that youre here. The gentleman would be recognized with the knowledge that anything that she brings in writing we would appreciate if she would leave for our office. Losi what the record to show we are willing to yield to a republican member to come to testify. We appreciate and i will tell you you are doing the right thing and we appreciate that. Pelosi aarp, the medical association of half of nurses positions. Patients and consumer groups condemn trunk care t rumpcares assault on her working families. This is the first and only time that hurts publicans have allowed anything resembling testimony about childcare tr umpcare consequence for the American People. I know are republican i will take advantage of the time that i have. The lives of millions of , and the rest, depend on for 12 coverage. This bill would destroy but republicans refused to listen. We are happy to have this little bit of time to say some things. Higher cost. Rumpcare forces families to pay higher deductibles increasing costs. Lets coverage, it will take away health care from 24 million hardworking americans. A crushing age tax, forces americans 5064. I understand that is being known as the near elderly. To pay premiums five times higher than what others pay for Health Coverage no matter how healthy they are. A life of Medicare Trust funds by three years and ransacked funds that seniors depend on to get Long Term Care they need. Speaker ryan call this an act of mercy. I dont know what faith tradition it is that it is an act of mercy to take away health and for millions of people having the biggest transfer of wealth in the countrys history. This is no accident mercy. There is no mercy here. Moral monstrosity that will deliver devastate seniors and americans. Families, seniors, vulnerable disabilities, people struggling to overcome addiction, and the sick will Lose Health Care. Verbal hospitals will be closed will bellion jobs destroyed across america. On hand billionaires another massive tax. Inmpcare is robin hood reverse. The manager amendments for the committee only confirms pcare was never about expanding coverage or lowering cost. Republicans all but admitted they cannot fix the crushing ont of the age tax middleaged and Older Americans. If anything the republicans have more destructive to americans who depend on medicaid. Im very grateful to have the opportunity to testify before you. Grateful to our Ranking Member mr. Mcgovern, for their leadership area where grateful to them in our caucuses. Im sure your caucus members are grateful to you and the committee. This is an important service. To the congress and to the country. We are having an important discussion about the matter. Former speaker, my colleagues said all politics is local. When it comes to health care it is not just about local areas while wes personal talk about the fact that 24 Million People will Lose Health Care and that people will pay more to get less, people are more interested in the big transfer of wealth. People are most interested in what it means to them personally. Thing because sad we believe health care is a right for all americans, not a privilege for a field. We believe it honors the values of our founders for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. No matter how you dress it up, plaintiff push 24 Million People off Health Coverage enforce americans to pay more for less health care. Must be a right of every american not just a privilege. Dont take it from me. It is notis has said a consumer good but a universal rights. Access to Health Services he said cannot be a privilege. For the sake of the American People republicans should pull this bill. Im honored to be here with the been ance leader who has champion on the issue of health care for all americans. His contribution was a great one. Perspective whether from a Rural America from down south, from this community is very valuable. To call him a colleague. [inaudible] 19 years. They give her dress. I have been here before. Members of this committee, thank you for allowing me to be here with you today. Esther chairman i strongly oppose the republicans american tolth care plan, the planet pay more for less care. I spoke on the floor of the house and i said at the time that i view the Affordable Care act as a Civil Rights Act of the 21st century. This ason i classify haveis because i happen to been a part of the socalled Civil Rights Movement since i was a child. Presence of my naacp chapter when i was 12 years old and organize my first citizen. Going to jail when i was 19. We were fighting them against the institutionalized racism in many, many areas. A lot of people do not realize when wee passed passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act it was to outlaw discrimination. Not, health care was one of them. Care, weery of health did not get everything we wanted in the Civil Rights Act. In fact we do not get voting until 1965. Housing until 1968. We did not outline is commission the Public Sector until 1972. Im amazed when i hear people talk about the civil right act this, thats. Ask them which one . Im feeling the same way about the Affordable Care act. We said this is not a Perfect Piece of legislation. Started, hopefully a moreroad to finding Perfect Piece of legislation. I think it would be a shame rather than to Work Together to make improvements to the Affordable Care act, for us to just throw it all about out the window and in doing so reinstitutionalized discrimination in health care. Thats will be taking a backwards step that i believe history will not forget. That thisen promised will be better coverage and lower cost for everyone. However, this plant rips Health Insurance coverage away from 24 million americans and it those. Ing cost to the nonpartisan congressional has estimated premiums will increase 2029 over eight of the next two years. Treatments for Older Americans will desperate humans will increase as much as 3006 and her dollars earning 25,000 per year. 7,000 for a 64yearold earning 25,000 per year. 8,400 for 64yearold earning 15,000 per year. Called anything other than a tax on seniors. I listened as leader pelosi mentioned health care is personal. Me share with you personal experience with health care. At the age of 55. Diagnosed before her 55th birthday with multiple myeloma. 1971. She dreamed of building that ranch stylehouse house she wanted before persisting birthday. Her diagnosis which we kept from her and never told her what it was. She said to me one night after excusing everybody from her bedside. See said james, i want you to tell me, do i have any chance of getting well . If i do not, i do not want to all spending all of my lifes savings if i dont have a chance to get well. Her, i lied to her. I told her mama, you do have a chance to get well so dont worry about all of us spending your money. We spent every dime she had. Eight months later she died. But in spitenow it of all her savings she died penniless. That is what i see that so many people in my Congressional District. On the day we passed the Affordable Care act, a late sunday night. The next day i received in a mill from a lady from florence, South Carolina. That she had been sitting up all night waiting on the vote. One of the vote came when the vote came she was extremely relieved. She told me she had been having anxious moments because she just received a letter from her Insurance Company several days earlier telling her that because of her daughters isyearold daughters cancer. Lifetime limits on their insurance policy. She wouldnt worry about what was going to happen to her or her husband. She was worrying about what was going to happen to her or her husband or whats happened if her childs cancer should return. She was very relieved after we passed to this bill. I have heard that from many, many people. According to a recent joint , themic Committee Reports republican plan will cause 105,000 south carolinians to lose private Health Care Coverage in 2018. 727, 900increasing by dollars additionally. You would see increased cost of hospitals inion to South Carolina. Half of my Congressional District is rural. I can tell you that the hospital is a salvation. We have already closed since i have been in congress, three rural hospitals in my Congressional District. I am told by the Hospital Association if this law were to pass we would see more hospitals being close in rural South Carolina. Im sure the same is true for many other states as well. This for public and plan is a big transfer of wealth. Two or 75 billion in tax cuts to the highest income americans. Going to people who make a Million Dollars per year or more. 2020, 61 of those cuts will go to millionaires. Those wanting to repeal the informal care act will join in infamy with those who gave us institutionalized discrimination like dread scott. The reconstruction courts, they 1876 plessy versus ferguson. See thewill reinstitution lysing reinstitutionalizing of racism in cocoa delivery system. Health care delivery system. About the country we would like to see for our , letren and grandchildren us make sure the decisions we make here or decisions that we will be proud of and that our children and grandchildren will be proud of. One of the most important meetings i have ever had was in my district offices countries office room where i was to meet with the representatives from the juvenile diabetes association. When i walked into the Conference Room there were children there as young as six months old. Diabetes. N born with pumps to keepwith played. Ns going as they it was an emotional meeting for me. I listened as one lady said to , if you get rid of the Affordable Care act this child of mine will not live to be a teenager. I think we have to be very, very to deliver we move health care in the system and be very mindful that no child requests to come here sick. I think it is incumbent upon us as a Civilized Society to make sure that that child the happy american. Be a happy american. You. Want to thank both of off the feedback because you come here with a purpose from the message you intended to give and i respect that. I will tell you that we have ,een through a day of hearing but members of congress are on obamacare. The plan across state lines. As both of you know i have a disabled child. If i was on obamacare when alex was a youngster he would not be able to use obamacare Children Hospitals in dallas texas and the gold plan. And outofnetwork expense. One of the finest hospitals in dallas does not even take obamacare, Affordable Care act. Gentleman gina green two years ago was appear as we were discussing testimony how obamacare is twice as expensive as the Previous Health care and the deductibles were twice. I will tell you that that is what i know. There are others that have given us stories also. The facts of the case are pretty simple. There are changes that would be necessary to the Affordable Care act to actually make it more amendable to millions of people. The president of the United States had it within his wherewithal to do lots of things and i believe when the answered questions they failed to do that. We were made promises that were not kept. Move we are attempting to to a system that actually would do something about the 30 Million People who were uninsured still in this country today. The 30 Million People would have an opportunity because my plan didnt and others would have done where we would allow a family of four to receive a tax that most families who are uninsured do not get because they do not work for a Larger Company that provides it as a company benefits. Would receivemily 8,000 worth of tax credits that they do not receive today. That is 8,000 to families that actually need the help. 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When you bring into mind, i also talked i spoke of the history of Health Insurance in america and i cited to the fact that it initially was disability insurance. And i found it interesting that many European Countries russia among them, hungary, germany, all had health 1809s. Ce in the late when we started, our insurance program, your mama and your grand mama and granddaddy and my mama and grand daddy couldnt get insurance because they didnt sell insurance to black people, period. Your mother died under extraordinary circumstances. But when i talk with lawyers about malpractice, my grand mother died at the instance of a goiter. And her epdemrotice was slit by a white physician at Arlington Memorial Hospital in oral. The physician that slit her epi demrottiss had never se