On the recordFebruary 3, 2015
What we are being asked to do here today is to stop that progress, to take away that coverage to young adults that today get it through their parents' plans, to take away the prescription drug benefit, to take away from seniors the relief that they are getting for lifesaving medications, and to tell those individual and small group plans that are purchasing it--this year, again, we have 70,000 reenrollments of the 75,000 enrolled last year, and we have 30,000 new that have enrolled this year in that plan. We have cut the uninsured rate in a State like Connecticut that has embraced the law down to 4 percent of its population. You are telling folks like me to blow it up, get rid of it, and you have no plan, even though your caucus made a promise a year ago to the American people that they would provide a plan, and they never came through with it. Reject this bill.
