06/21/2011
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"Republicans in both the House and the Senate pulled the first thread that will unravel potentially the entire health-care system."
"We cannot afford to discard and destroy the ACA and Medicaid for millions of people like me who would be turned away."
"this is about differences, fundamental differences, and ideas and policies and what helps people, what hurts people."
"But let me just stress that, for about 35 years, we have tried high-risk pools. Thirty-five States had them before the Affordable Care Act. And frankly, they did not produce great results."