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Replace ACA Exchanges and Medicaid Expansion

Floor Speech

Date: March 1, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health Insurance Health and Health Care

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Madam Speaker, I rise today to support our President's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, but I want to stop and salute my colleague, my neighbor to the north, General Don Bacon, and the great State of Nebraska. As I tell people, I have never met a bad person from Nebraska yet. General Bacon continues to represent his State in a great manner, and I appreciate his friendship.

Madam Speaker, I rise to support the President's plan to replace the ACA exchanges and Medicaid expansion. This is simply in a death spiral right now. It is not working in Kansas. It is not working in the country. We cannot afford to go in that direction.

I am committed to helping those with long-term health issues, as well as those that get insurance outside the workplace, to truly find quality, affordable health care. We are not going to turn our backs on anybody. We are going to ensure there is a quality transition time for all patients.

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