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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

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

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act will terminate coverage for--sorry, not 30, but 32 million people.

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.'