To the stories that you have told, including the story of veronicas family. Very moving. If i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. I would not be coming in with any agenda. I would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. Sen. Hirono so are you saying that the impact of the Affordable Care act on the millions of people who rely upon it, that you would deem to be policy considerations that we should address . Sen. Hirono senator, i think that you choose the law and you have structured the Affordable Care act. You set the policies. And i think when a court has to interpret those statutes or decide how it applies in a Certain Circumstance, the court looks to traditional legal materials, looks to the briefs, listens to the real world impacts on the litigants before the co
[inaudible] senator blumenthal. Thank you very much. Thank you for being back. You very much, mr. Chairman, thank you for being back, your honor, and thank you to your family as well. I want to begin by saying, perhaps not surprisingly to you, that i was really disappointed by your responses to a number of my colleagues most recently on the coons issue of whether you would purchase fate in a decision involving the upcoming election if you were confirmed. I continue to believe that if you were to participate in a decision involving that enduring,it would do explosive damage to the court. I think you know it would be wrong, not because of anything you have done. Fact, i am not raising the issue of whether you have done any sort of deal or commitment because of what donald trump has and my republican colleagues, because they have indelibly put at issue your integrity through their statements. The president has said that he is putting you on the court as the ninth justice, so you can decid
Insurance. So typical and common for people. Put it off. When julia finally saw a doctor without still without insurance, she learned she had a brain tumor, and she was eligible for coverage. Under connecticuts Medicaid Expansion program, which was created by the Affordable Care act. In her words, it was a godsend. I raise these stories in part because as you know, im sure, protection for people who suffer from preexisting conditions is, in fact, on the line. In this case that will come to the Supreme Court only a week after the election. I want to be chriscal clear because you stated to senator feinstein that and im going to quote, so far as i know the case next week doesnt present that issue. Its not a challenge to preexisting conditions, coverage, or to the extreme lifetime maximum relief from a cap. And technically youre right, but, its a big but, if the trial court is upheld and theres no severability, the entire act goes down. That is what the Trump Administration is asking the c