Future of the Affordable Care act under the Trump Administration. The House Oversight and Reform Committee heard from advocates, opponents of aca, as well as patient who benefited from the law. This hearing is just under four hours. Committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This full Committee Hearing is convening regarding the administrations attack on the aca. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. We are here today because on march 25th, 2019 nk, the Trump Administration filed a twosentence letter with the United States court of appeals before the 5th circuit reversing its own previous position in the case of texas versus United States in asserting for the first time that it would not defend any portion of the Affordable Care act in court. If the Trump Administrations position prevail s and the entie aca is struck down, there will be catastrophic implications for millions
Including advil and cholesterol pill limits or all of which have lost patent protection making them less profitable the spin off would allow pfizer to focus on newer patent protected medications which are more profitable and it comes as u. S. Drug Companies Face intense political pressure to lower their prices. Democratic president ial hopeful Bernie Sanders is campaigning against high drug prices in the u. S. On a pharisee in canada hes joined by diabetes patients who cross the border with them to buy insulin one vial costs 340 dollars in the u. S. In canada its just 30. Many americans are faced with skyrocketing pharmaceutical prices out of congressional oversight hearing in washington patients spoke of the impact the prices are having on their lives. What are we willing to pay to save a life and well thats easy when its your childs ability to live to breathe when its your wifes diabetes when its your own cancer the answer is anything but thats the wrong question the question we shou
Yale Law School Professor of health law. Got under way about 40 minutes ago. Live here on cspan. Move to mr. Gibbs. Let me say to our patient witnesses, again i want to thank you for being here. I think your testimony is so important. Mr. Cummings so often here on capitol hill we look at and we read about problems. But there is nothing like having people who go through it second of their lives. Mr. Gibbs. Thank you. Mr. Gibbs thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, members of the committee, for giving me the opportunity to speak today. Today i have heard this law referred to as commonly is by the names either the Affordable Care act or obamacare. For me its important to call this law by its full name, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act because the Patient Protections of the a. C. A. Have been a gift from god for people like me and families like mine. My Health Care Story begins in 1974 when my twin brother and i were born with serious medical conditions. He had a condition call
court ended a constitutional right to an abortion, it s been easy to see the political story and political debates. it s a lot harder to see the medical story, meaning the reality about abortion access, the sudden changes at the state level. the crisis situations for pregnant women that may be denied care. doctors are conferring with one another and some sharing anecdotes but the accounts are second hand and details can be very hard to confirm. take this reporting from usa today quoting a top doctor. she says until the roe v. wade i never had a colleague tell me about a pregnancy that was being forced to continue because of rain. in rape. in the last week, i heard of three. patient privacy is paramount and many rape victims wouldn t want to subject them sselves to the media glare, look at the 10-year-old in ohio. a 10-year-old rape victim was pregnant and because ohio out lawed abortion, the girl was brought to indiana to end the pregnancy. the story was sited by abortion
efforts mainly from the pro-choice viewpoint, and that s generating plenty of television session isments. segments. you may have seen a bunch of anecdotal stories, we re trying to see women of child-bearing age are getting denied access to medication. the woman who was toll she needed to fill two diapers with blood. abortion access post-roe was going to help them connect with american voters? well, instead over the past 24 hours they ve revealed themselves as not just out of touch, but, frankly, ghoulish. a kansas city hospital temporarily required a approval from a pharmacy before dispensing medications used to stop post-partum bleeding. democrats are claiming women with ectopic pregnancies a are no longer receiving medical care. more than half population not being able to make decisions when not even half of this body has a uterus. there s human issues at stake here. there are a lot of people unhinged in the pro-abortion movement. howard: it s really goi