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
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Closed. Now just one is closed. What is the latest update . We worked to get the toll booths open around 4 30 this morning. The major activity this weekend was cleaning up all the debris which poses a hazard to the travel public. We had to make sure it with us completely cleared up, then do the repairs to the other booths damaged. We were able to get that done in fairly short order, some Electrical Work and other things. There may be work in the future we need to do, but for now we are at least able to get them up and running. Reporter what can you tell us about what happened over the weekend, the investigation. This was possibly a drunk driver . You would have to talk to the chp about that. They handle that end of it. We just handle the physical structures here. Reporter what can you tell us about the victim. She is ceecee hahn, a 46year old toll worker killed in the crash . Yes. 46 years old. She worked for caltrans for about tenandahalf years. She was greatly loved by everybody who
Used that did not allow us to really know what we are doing. As a result, its my understanding there are numerous provisions in both the house and senate bill that will not work and will require changes. Secondly, we profess to want to do this to help middleincome families but in reality this bill hurts middleinincome families, both the house and senate bill. I hope that will be corrected in conference. And the third, and there is no dispute about this, the house bill and senate bill add anywhere between 2 trillion to the deficit of this country and we shouldnt be deficit financing a tax reform bill. Let me first talk very briefly about process. Lets not repeat the mistakes that we made. It was outrageous that late friday night we got a 500pageplus amendment to the pending bill and tried to read it and couldnt even read the handwritten changes that were put into the margins, and then we were asked to vote on that later that evening. That process just is not befitting the United States
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