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On the recordFebruary 18, 2011
Thank you. I would like to say to the Republicans, be careful what you wish for. Your star is fading on this effort to repeal, to defund the Affordable Care Act. Only about 18 percent of Americans now are for full repeal of this bill. And are you the ones that are going to go and tell the American people that insurance companies can drop you when you get sick? Children with preexisting conditions? Well, they can be denied coverage. You go and explain that insurance companies can impose devastating annual and lifetime caps, and that pregnant women and breast cancer survivors can be denied coverage, and that being a woman will continue to be a preexisting condition. That's your mission if you were to succeed. In passing this legislation, the American people finally said, this Congress said, that health care is a right, that it should not impoverish individuals. Vote ``no.'' {time} 1020
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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