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On the recordJune 29, 2020
Approaching July Fourth, we should be celebrating the greatness of our country. Instead, we are mired in a pandemic when we have more people infected and more deaths from this pandemic than any country in the entire world--with President Trump floundering and whining. His approach to this pandemic--denial, delay, and ongoing deception-- has been exposed for the fraud that it is. And because of his multiple failures, now is a time when more Americans desperately need the opportunity to enroll in health insurance, not the junk insurance that he has been promoting. Instead, he seeks to eliminate--as do our Republican colleagues--the Affordable Care Act and the coverage that it has today for millions of our citizens. Madam Speaker, today's bill offers a reaffirmation that the Affordable Care Act should be strengthened, not destroyed. Strengthening that would have been occurring long ago but for the fanatic decade of our Republican colleagues in trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act. Next year, however, we have to do much more for healthcare than simply to return where it should have been. Millions of Americans, particularly in a State like Texas, which has more uninsured children than any State in America, they are still likely to be excluded because of obstructionist Republican State leaders. And even those who have insurance, are still often the victims of prescription price gouging.…
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas
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Jun 29, 2020

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