On the recordMay 21, 2013
There are probably very few issues that touch Americans, families, our States, and small businesses more personally than health care. This House has dealt numerous times with addressing the Affordable Care Act. But when we talk about it on that very personal level--of a mom taking a sick child down to visit the doctor, to a senior citizen who's counting on that hospital being able to be there, to be able to deliver the care that they need--we need to recognize that the overarching view that Washington typically performs when passing a bill and delivering it to the American people, that it has very real consequences, very real impacts. In my district in rural Colorado--and in fact throughout rural America--there is a looming health care crisis that is just on the horizon. That ability to be able to go to the doctor, to be able to have a hospital that's going to be there to be able to provide the service that's necessary--they're feeling that real impact right now at home.…





