What is shocking to me is that you want to spend even more than that and yet leave 30 million people without health care.

Two leading doctors at Harvard Medical School have concluded that 43,000 people will be killed annually if the ACA is repealed without a replacement.

I strongly agree with that and yet, here we are where repealing the ACA without a replacement as the Republicans have already begun to do, would cost roughly $350 billion through 2027.

Those 43,000 people are not just anecdotes. They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

It gave every shyster and promoter a loophole. . . . We now have to keep rewriting the laws like the tax code.

turning a physician's decision to refer a patient into a marketable commodity.

In 2007 Pete Stark wrote that he believed that, on balance, the law may have done more harm than good.

I think we have to ask ourselves, how do we do more good than harm in eliminating the compensation arrangements.

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. One of the previous Speakers, Mr. O'Neill, mentioned that, and you forgot to mention this, but Tip O'Neill said that I probably had one of the best 5-minute speeches of any new Member of…

I would first of all like to try to make it the protocol in this committee--I am not succeeding too well--that we strike from our lexicon the word 'disability.'

I'd like to first thank my friend, Ms. Lee, for bringing up this important amendment. She knows so well that the less experience people in this body have had with the military, the fiercer they are. That goes to the Republicans wanting to…