Dean Phillips: “While traveling recently through my home State of Minnesota, I met a wonderful couple in their early 60s. They were both…”

“While traveling recently through my home State of Minnesota, I met a wonderful couple in their early 60s. They were both teachers who had dedicated their professional lives to enriching our community by educating our children. They had done everything right, saved as much money as they could, and it was time to retire, until the husband was diagnosed with early- onset Alzheimer's. Now, the out-of-pocket costs for his care will wipe out all of their retirement savings--all of their savings. Madam Speaker, I ask: What is our President thinking? This is an all-too-common story played out in blue and red districts throughout our Nation. Yet, we have a White House determined to wipe out the Affordable Care Act. It is callous; it is wrong; and it is unacceptable. It is time for us to make the moral decision to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable, high-quality healthcare, no matter their circumstances. That is why we just introduced a bill in the House, led by my Minnesota colleague, Angie Craig, to reduce premiums and lower healthcare costs. That is why I am a cosponsor of Congressman Doggett's bill to make prescription drugs more affordable. There is hard work to be done to make our health system work for all Americans, and we are doing it in the House. I say to President Trump and my Republican colleagues that it is not too late to abandon this misguided effort to dismantle the ACA and join us to work on real solutions.…”