american people and that health care in our country is a right, not a privilege. if there had been no other reason for us to pass the affordable care act, one compelling reason was cost. the cost to the individual, to families, to businesses, small and corporate, and to public sector, was totally unsustainable. so we had three goals. one was to lower costs, another was to improve benefits, and third, to increase access. and all three of those arenas, the affordable care act has been a big success. when we talk about rolling back the affordable care act, we also are having an impact on medicare. the affordable care act prolonged the life, extended the solvency of medicare. it expanded medicaid. this is very important to america's families. the former speaker once said all