The gentlewoman from Ohio is correct. I am sure we are not making many friends with all this, but this is one of the things we might do to accommodate many of our colleagues who might like to end the 100 days sooner: Is there any reason in the rule that the bill could not be considered this afternoon?
Discussing the scheduling of a bill during a House floor debate.
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In 2007 Pete Stark wrote that he believed that, on balance, the law may have done more harm than good.
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.
Two leading doctors at Harvard Medical School have concluded that 43,000 people will be killed annually if the ACA is repealed without a replacement.
Those 43,000 people are not just anecdotes. They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.
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