On the recordFebruary 18, 2011
I thank the gentlelady. Eight hundred seniors gathered just a year or two ago, expressing their horrific opposition to the idea of being overwhelmed by this doughnut hole. My colleagues today are telling seniors all over America we now will close the door on you again. We will ensure that you will not have the money to pay for your rent or food because you will be paying these ridiculously high costs for your prescription drugs. That's what this amendment will do. It will close down potentially the Affordable Care Act that is providing a lifeline for our seniors. And then if you are laying on the sick bed in your hospital room and you need more care and more care to restore yourself, you have a doctor or an administrator come in and say, your insurance company called and they're pulling the plug. Not the plug that the doctors are pulling, but they are pulling the plug. You have no more money, get out and try to do the best you can. Two hundred and thirty billion dollars this amendment will cost us. But more importantly, this bill is not, the Affordable Care Act, unconstitutional. Only two courts have rendered that. And frankly, the Supreme Court will speak. Don't do this to the American people. {time} 1030
