Leader Pelosi Issues Remarks at Steering & Policy Committee Hearing
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House Democratic Leader
Leader Pelosi Opening Remarks
Leader Pelosi. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for very much for joining us today as we step forward on a path to keeping America healthy and making America even healthier. We have three very distinguished witnesses who we will hear from shortly. Our Co-Chairs Congresswoman
To our distinguished witnesses, your testimony today is very important to us because stability in the marketplace is essential to the success and good health of the American people.
My privilege now to call to order our hearing, 'Action Now: Updating and Improving the Affordable Care Act to
There is quality for every American, no matter where they get their coverage. Since the ACA, health care cost growth has been the slowest on record. The
So I just want to focus on the word cost, cost, cost, cost. Every version of Trumpcare would hit Americans with crushing health bills, sky-high deductibles, soaring out-of-pocket costs. Under Trumpcare, for example, a middle-aged, middle-income person would face a choice between increasing his or her deductible from
So, we talk about lower premiums. But costs are still going up with higher deductibles and higher co-pays. A 64-year-old with an income of
According to estimates, premiums for those under 40 could be up to 70% more expensive if they want maternity coverage, and without coverage, giving birth costs an average of
As a mother of five and grandmother of nine, that's totally unacceptable.
Earlier this month,
Trumpcare also includes two provisions
Again, we're honored to be joined by our distinguished board of experts on coverage in America who will share their thoughts with us but first I'm going to yield to the distinguished Co-Chair of the
Leader Pelosi Closing Remarks
Leader Pelosi. I thank our co-chairs and again I'm going to yield to
Your objectivity in making judgements about what works, what doesn't work, where we can do better, where we must weigh in has been very helpful.
I started the meeting by talking about costs, cost to individuals, costs to businesses, costs to the public sector, the private sector, in many manifestations. And what this will do in terms of costs to individuals in any other elements of this is just horrific. As I said earlier,
This is person making
We know the mandate was important, the individual mandate, but there are other ways to skin that cat, and I was hoping the Trump administration would come in and say, 'I'm not for a mandate but I know we can't have any free riders. How do we solve that?' You've suggested we do that, and I think
Congresswoman [
The court case wasn't an intervention unfortunately; we thought that the case was clear in terms of it's already called for in the bill.
The judge thought not, now it's up to the President to give us a little more certainty but certainly
Thank you,
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