Joe Pitts: “I now yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Griffith), a member of the Health Subcommittee.”

It is unfortunate that we have a Congress of the United States, the majority parties that want to just tear down this law.

It is embarrassing that in the most capable country in the world, in the most powerful elected bodies in the world that we effectively have done almost nothing to improve the health care of Americans since this law has been passed.

Because of the Affordable Care Act, now over 20 million people in this country who were in that situation literally overnight are no longer in that situation.

Today's hearing will be taking a close look at the United States Preventive Services Task Force, created in 1984 as an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts in prevention, primary care, and evidence-based medicine and tasked…