Country continues to grow. Prices are rising, choices are disappearing, American People are desperate for congress to step in and do something to help rescue them from the rising costs and collapsing choices of the Obama Health Care law. Its interesting mister president , when the democrats asked obamacare, the leader of the time harry reid said we would all get what he described as an ear full of wonderment and happiness, those were his words. And fearful of what happiness over how great the law was. Whatever we get at home in wyoming, im sure if your case in carolina, we get your full to and is not wonderment and its not about happiness over obamacare but what i hear from patients and doctors at home is that obamacare is hurting them. Hurting our communities, hurting our state. I hear about rising premiums, the declining number of options, collapse of obamacare and he had one choice in wyoming , that we both lost money even in spite of high premiums and what we saw is that one ended
Country continues to grow. Prices are rising, choices are disappearing, American People are desperate for congress to step in and do something to help rescue them from the rising costs and collapsing choices of the Obama Health Care law. Its interesting mister president , when the democrats asked obamacare, the leader of the time harry reid said we would all get what he described as an ear full of wonderment and happiness, those were his words. And fearful of what happiness over how great the law was. Whatever we get at home in wyoming, im sure if your case in carolina, we get your full to and is not wonderment and its not about happiness over obamacare but what i hear from patients and doctors at home is that obamacare is hurting them. Hurting our communities, hurting our state. I hear about rising premiums, the declining number of options, collapse of obamacare and he had one choice in wyoming , that we both lost money even in spite of high premiums and what we saw is that one ended
Will come to order. Without objection that shares authorized to declare recesses of the subcommittee at any time. Let me say that we are to vote between 10 45 and 10 50. I will not make an Opening Statement but put my Opening Statement into the record. I will ask every other member to allow us to the witnesses so that they all are able to get their testimony in before we have to leave to go and vote. So without objection all Opening Statements will be placed into the record at this time. We have a very distinguished panel this morning, and i would beginning by swearing in our witnesses before introducing them. Would you all please rise and raise your right hand . [witnesses were sworn in] let the record show that all of the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. I will give an abbreviated introduction for all of the witnesses so that we can hear them and get to as many questions as possible. The first witness is Kenneth Blanco who is the acting assistant attorney general for the C
A day of action to preserve our care. This is absolutely essential because this is again, and assault, and assault on one of the most important rights, the right to good health. Saidend Martin Luther king of all the forms of inequality, the injustice in health care is one of the most inhuman, inhuman. We know that. We know that. We will talk more about that, but we know this is a very important value to our country to be respectful of meeting the needs of the American People. In the course of the morning on the republican plan and how that is really so and we arequestion, for the Affordable Care act. We want to see them come up with something that does not diminish what our goals were in the Affordable Care act. Those goals were to expand coverage to as many people as possible in our country, to improve benefits for everyone, and to lower the cost. So it is not just about the 20 islion people, actually it 20,400,000 people, as of today, who had Health Care Insurance who would not have
Repeal the health care law. This one was in San Francisco. This is 90 minutes. Rep. Pelosi we gather here to save our health care. People are gathering all over the country, and democratic districts, under the leadership of democratic members and republican districts, with outside mobilization weighing in. A day of action to preserve our care. This is absolutely essential, because this is again, and is absolutely essential, because this is again, and assault on one of the most important rights, the right to good health. Reverend Martin Luther king said, of all the forms of inequality, the injustice in health care is one of the most inhuman. Inhuman. We know that. Inequality, the injustice in health care is one of the most we know that, and we will talk more about that. We know this is a very important value to our country, to be respectful of meeting the needs of the American People. We will talk in the course of the morning on the republican plan and how that is really so out of the q