Diana DeGette: “We applaud Chairman Upton, Representative Diana DeGette, and the committee members for undertaking the 21st Century…”

I want to congratulate Melat Kiros for her victory last night, and I want to wish her all the best in her future.

The government should never have the right to use health insurance coverage as a targeted weapon, should never deliberately strip certain people of the freedom to make their own medical decisions.

If you’re going to be doing quality health care legislation, you should be able to do it in a bipartisan way.

If I could pass Medicare-for-All unilaterally in the minority, I would do it, because I’m an original co-sponsor of that bill. But the frustration people are feeling is with the whole system.