Since 1987 it has banned balance billing in the emergency department settings only.

We have to stop this. And it is why Chairman Pallone and I are moving forward with legislation to protect patients.

But I don't believe it should fairly fall on the shoulders of a consumer who shows up and is absolutely powerless and had nothing to do with creating the mess in the first place.

Protecting patients, however, must be put at the forefront of this discussion and I will continue to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to do just that.

The challenge for consumers they are totally powerless--totally powerless.

I am encouraged that our draft legislation lines up well with the principles the White House has set forth for a solution that could get the President's signature and become law.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will start with a man-bites-dog story.

As Martin Luther King reminded us, it's socialism for the very rich, and unfettered individualism for the poor.

In fact, people like Donald Trump are also socialists, except they are corporate socialists.

It is my very strong belief that the United States must reject that path of hatred and divisiveness, and instead find the moral conviction to choose a different path, a higher path, and a path of compassion, justice and love.

What I am saying, picking up from Roosevelt, that in the wealthiest country in the history of the world now is the time to finally state that economic rights are human rights.

I certainly think that the American people need to understand what this president has done, his contempt for the law.

I think we have a president who neither understands the Constitution of the United States or respects the Constitution, somebody that does not believe in the separation of powers and somebody who thinks he's above the law.

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