Pete Stark: “It is time to act quickly and decisively to preserve a valuable service and to stop the waste, fraud, and abuse…”

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

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.'

Two leading doctors at Harvard Medical School have concluded that 43,000 people will be killed annually if the ACA is repealed without a replacement.