On the recordJanuary 10, 2017
Representative Garamendi, if I just might, I am listening to Representative Kaptur talk of the interaction she had with her constituents, and I would just add my similar experience. Some of the most cherished efforts of the Affordable Care Act are about preexisting conditions. Being a woman, being a pregnant woman, or being a woman or a man fighting cancer made it very difficult for people to get that insurance, and lifetime caps. You know, people being rolled into surgery, wheeled into surgery, and being told that they were discontinuing their plan. So these are elements of the Affordable Care Act that could be at risk if we start playing around with the actuarial balance that has been achieved. And preexisting conditions, they rang right up there as one of the biggest concerns people have about repeal.
