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On the recordJune 28, 2012
Today is a great day. It's a great day for children who want to stay on their parents' health insurance until they're 26--or parents who want their children on their health insurance until they're 26. It's a great day for seniors that are concerned about the doughnut hole, for women who have been discriminated against in health care, for all people who don't want to have copays for preventative care. It's a great day for people who don't want lifetime caps on their insurance or to be denied because of preexisting conditions. And it's a great day for America because the rule of law has been upheld. Justice Roberts rightfully ruled that this was appropriate and constitutional. Let us not forget Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor and Kagan and Breyer, the five Justices who upheld the Supreme Court belief that the American people have that it is a rule of law and that the Court is not political. It was a great day for American health care and for American law and jurisprudence. ____________________
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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