Americans off of their Health Insurance coverage. I dont say that. C. B. O. Says that, which is perhaps why we dont have a c. B. O. Report on the amendment. It includes 7 Million People who are covered through their employers. It is a vote to make coverage unaffordable for one in four americans with preexisting conditions and rationed care through high risk pools. It is a vote to impose an age tax on old americans. Quite a hike. Its a vote to force americans to pay more for less to raise premiums 24 to 29 on average over each of the next two years. C. B. O. Says that, not me. And no matter how republicans try to spin it, Health Care Advocates from the a. M. A. To aa rmp p and everybody that foles have said that it ends protection for those with preexisting conditions. It ends protections for those with preexisting conditions. It ends protections for those with preexisting conditions and takes away essential Health Benefits like doctor visits and emergency room visits and prescription drugs. This will be an instructtive vote and republicans stand who dont want to lose their coverage and 75 saying fix it, dont repeal or stand with a president who wants to claim a victory but doesnt even know what his own Trumpcare Bill says. I recommend as a political strategist who are concerned about 2018, that you once again withdraw this bill. Instead we ought to Work Together to make sure that the Affordable Care act works for all americans and deliver, deliver on the promise that President Trump made and made from that podium when he said that he wanted insurance for everybody. Not kick 24 million off, for everybody. Not make seniors pay more, for everybody. Not to put medicaid at risk, for everybody. Its far less expensive and far better. I urge my colleagues come to your senses, defeat this bill. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from tennessee. Mrs. Black mr. Speaker, i would like to remind the other side that if they read the bill they will see under section 137, it says no limiting access to coverage for preexisting conditions. Nothing shall be construed to limit access to Health Coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions. I do not have time to yield. It is now my honor to it is my honor to yield four minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. Brady, the chairman of the ways and Means Committee. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. Mr. Brady thank you, mr. Speaker. I first want to thank chairwoman black for her leadership on this effort as well as well as chairman and walden for an incredible work. Mr. Chairman and on behalf of the ways and Means Committee, who worked along side you, im honored to speak in support of the American Health care act because it guarantees coverage for those with preexisting illnesses. It guarantees coverage for those with preexisting illnesses. The bill takes Decisive Action and repeal all the damage done by obamacare and begin a thoughtful stepbystep process to deliver a patientcentered Health Care System not a washingtoncentered Health Care System. While obamacare has helped some, far more have been hurt by this law. In more obamacare failures are piling up every day. Just yesterday, aetna announced it will exit virginias individual Health Market next year and not just the ork exchanges they are leaving behind, aetna will not offer any plans in the individual market in virginia. Same thing is happening in iowa. And democrats, my friends on the democratic aisle have done nothing to stop this, nothing. But today, because of this bill, thousands of people will have hope for new plans to provide the Health Care Coverage they need. Millions of americans throughout the country are facing terrible options. People in texas have been hit particularly hard. Between this year and last year, nine Health Care Insurers have exited Obamacare Exchanges in the lone star state. No other state saw more insurers leave. For my familiar have made incredible tough choices. You cant access affordable coverage tailored to what they need. And learned how to get by of the bigger than their mortgage payments and chose to pay out of pocket for the care they need or not getting care at all. Under obamacare, receiving from luxury. Ent has been a today with the American Health care act, the republicans proposed we have an opportunity to provide immediate relief from this failing law. More than that, we can provide americans with real choices in health care, not the painful decision they are forced to live with under obamacare. Under the ways and Means Committee area, this starts by repealing the laws crushing taxes and mandates and thats where ways and means takes action. Under obamacare, the individual employer mandate penalties allow washington to strong arm you, strong arm americans into an obamacare plan you do not want and cant afford. Not anymore. We repeal the individual mandate tax penalties so americans have the right to make the choices. Under obamacare, trillions of taxes were imposed. Under the republican plan, those taxes are gone, taxes that burdened americas Small Businesses and families. And under our plan we provide increased Health Savings accounts so americans can save easier that hit them and we create a personal individual tax credit so americans can buy plans that are right for them and not what is right for government. Health care premiums, they can choose a plan that can go with them from job to job or state to state. Today is about taking on the collapsing obamacare and replacing for the American People health care that they want, they can use and that they can afford, driven not by what washington wants, but driven by what American Families need in their health care. I urge support. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from virginia. Mr. Scott i remind my colleague his vote for this bill could take away protections to 4. 5 Million People with preexisting conditions in texas who might have access to coverage but if they have diabetes, their rates could go up by 5,000. I yield one minute to the gentlelady from north carolina. Ms. Adams after his latest failed attempt to roll back the a. C. A. , speaker ryan said obamacare is the law of the land. Less than 50 days later, paul ryan shamefully is going against his word trying to ram trumpcare down our throats. Its an embarrassment we are asting taxpayer dollars to dontcare. Trump and gives tax breaks and forces families to pay higher premiums and placing health care out of their reach and changes medicare as we know it and strips essential Health Benefits and protections for people with preexisting conditions. What a pitiful display. Trumpcare is so bad, republicans exempted themselves from it. They dont want trumpcare. The medical industry doesnt want trumpcare. Democrats dont want trumpcare. Why arent republicans listening. The people dont want it and i wont support it. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from tennessee. Mrs. Black i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from virginia. Mr. Scott i ask unanimous consent to enter into a record a letter from common sense care action saying it jeopardizes the health of americas kids. The speaker pro tempore woment mr. Scott i yield for the purpose of a unanimous consent request to the jam from new york, mr. Jeffries. Mr. Jeffries i enter a letter from f. C. I. U. Which states it will leave millions without Health Insurance. Mr. Scott i yield one minute to the gentleman from new york. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Jeffries House Majority has once again made clear that under republican rule, the system is rigid. The fix is in. The deck is stacked against hardworking americans. And exhibit a is your reckless Republican Health care plan. Under trumpcare, 24 million americans will lose access to Health Insurance. Under trumpcare, a draconian age tax will be imposed on people between 50 and 64. Under trumpcare, costs will go up, premiums will go up, copays will go up, deductibles will go up. Under trumpcare tens of millions of americans who are living with preexisting conditions will be screwed. House republicans are out to destroy the American Health care system as we know it. But you will be held accountable for the cruel and unusual punishment that you have decided to inflict on the American People. Vote no against this draconian iece of legislation. The speaker pro tempore apparently for the last time, the chair reminds the members to direct their remarks to this chair. Understood . The gentlelady from tennessee. Mrs. Black i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from virginia. Mr. Scott i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record an article in Consumer Reports dated may 2, 2017 entitled how the Affordable Care act drove down personal bankruptcy the speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Scott i yield to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Norcross. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Norcross a month ago this bill was abruptly that day because it wasnt harmful enough. It is so bad, it might actually pass. I dont have a lot of time to explain, but let me tell you two groups that are going to say thank you, its the billionaires and its the undertakers. This bill will make health care more affordable. Meanwhile it gives 600 billion excuse me 800 billion to the wealthy, to the billionaires. Trumpcare brings us higher costs, less coverage, guts the benefits, crushing age tax and steals from medicare. And in my district alone, 43,000 people will lose coverage, 9,000 of those are children, elderly, the medicaid will be lost, close to 2,000. There is a reason they are trying to jam this down our throat. There is no c. B. O. Score because they dont want to hear a score. Let me make it plain. Lets put this bill in a coffin and lets kill and bury this bill. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from tennessee. Mrs. Black now my honor to ield 1 na minutes to mr. Scalise, our whip. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Scalise i thank the chairwoman of the Budget Committee for yielding. I rise in strong support of this bill, mr. Speaker, that finally provides relief to the American People across this country from the failures of obamacare. And just how bad is it failing . You dont have to look any further than what happened in iowa yesterday, they will have in 94 out of 99 counties nobody to write nurns for people that are in the Obamacare Exchanges. What do those who are opposed say to those people in iowa . What are the people that oppose this bill going to say to the millions of people with preexisting conditions across the country who are being faced with double digit increases in their Health Insurance every year . And by the way, premiums and deductibles as high as 10,000 which are creaming those folks that are struggling under the weight of this bill. What we are replacing it with with lower premiums and put patients back in charge of their Health Care Decisions so elitists in washington up here wont tell you what you have to buy, you get to make that choice yourself and focus on plans that are good for your family at lower costs so you can be in charge and reforming the medicaid system, so that states have the ability to innovate and help lowincome families. This bill is important, mr. Speaker, to rescue the American People from a law that has failed. Lets end the skyrocketing premium increases and lower costs and have patients in charge of their health care. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from virginia. Mr. Scott for example, those with Breast Cancer could see their premiums go up by over 34,000. Mr. Speaker, i yield to the gentlelady from delaware for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. Ms. Blunt rochester mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter from aarp which makes clear, health care will be sabotaged under this bill and Health Care Costs for Older Americans will, quote, dramatically increase, end quote. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Scott thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i yield one minute to the gentlelady from delaware. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Blunt rochester thank you. Mr. Speaker, i know in these polarized times we often forget that we are connected. And we are all connected to each other. A sick, uninsured employee effects the bottom line of a Small Business. Uncompensated care in the emergency room, we all pay the bill. When a child from an uninsured family goes to school, with an undiagnosed virus, not only does it impact his or her ability to learn, it impacts other kids and puts them at risk. We are all connected. As Martin Luther king so powerfully said, we may have come over on different ships, but were all in the same boat now. Mr. Speaker, its time we start rowing together. Unfortunately this bill fails to recognize this. It still fails. That were connected and that instead of bringing us together, this simply divides us, by providing less coverage, imposing an age tax, forcing people to pay more, and stripping key protections. I urge all my colleagues to vote no on h. R. 1628. Thank you and yield back the balance of my time. Thank you and yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from tennessee reserves. The gentleman from virginia. Mr. Scott thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i yield one minute o the gentleman from illinois, mr. Krishnamoorthi crish mr. Crish mr. Krishnamoorthi crish. Mr. Krishnamoorthi. I could yield for the purpose of unanimous consent request first . The speaker pro tempore sure. Mr. Scott thank you. Mr. Krishnamoorthi i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter from the American Medical Association that states, quote, not only would the ahca eliminate Health Insurance coverage for millions of americans, the legislation would in many cases eliminate the ban against charging those with underlying medical conditions vastly more for their coverage. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Scott now i yield one minute to the gentleman from illinois. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Krishnamoorthi thank you, mr. Speaker. The country will not remember what we say here today. But it will never forget what we do today, especially if we make the wrong choice and adopt this bill. The 159 million americans whose employersponsored health care could be cut would never forget. Neither would the 24 million americans who would lose their coverage or the 52 Million People with preexisting conditions who would struggle to find Health Insurance again. If this bill passes, mr. Speaker, no cancer survivor denied coverage will forget, no survivor of Sexual Assault charged more for her ordeal will forget, and no parent struggling to afford emergency surgery for a newborn child could ever forget. They would not have that choice. But today we have one. We can choose to vote no and prevent millions of americans from losing their health care. We can choose the right path rooted in morality, decency and reason. I implore you, vote no. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from tennessee. Mrs. Black reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. The gentleman from virginia. Mr. Scott mr. Speaker, i yield for the purpose of a unanimous consent request to the gentleman from new york. Mr. Espaillat mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter from which states this bill would cost millions to lose would cause millions to lose their Health Coverage and return to the days when even inadequate coverage was unaffordable. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Scott mr. Speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from new york. Mr. Espaillat mr. Speaker, i strongly oppose this bill. We all should. Protecting a. C. A. Is a top issue for my constituents. Constituents like leslie who without the protections of the a. C. A. Would not have gotten the treatment for leukemia that she was diagnosed with at the age of 22. Leslie is now in remission thanks to obamacare. For leslie, the a. C. A. Protections, like essential Health Benefits, were a matter of life and death. This republican bill would destroy those patient protections. Under the a. C. A. In my district, 5 dropped in uninsured rates. Subsidized based on region and income, not on age. Medicaid expansion covering 156,000 people will be lost. The president promised not to cut medicaid. This bill guts it by 880 billion. This bill is a gut punch to america. Pregnant women seeking health care kicked to the curb. Patients with preexisting conditions, kicked to the curb. Senior citizens who will have to pay for more less, kicked