Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act

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Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in opposition to this patients' rights repeal and deficit explosion act.

The bill before us today, according to the nonpartisan CBO, is going to add $230 billion to our national debt. We should not stand for that. The bill before us today is going to repeal efforts that we put in place to be sure that young adults can get on to their parents' insurance plans. If we repeal this, it is going to knock 20,000 young adults in Washington State alone off their parents' plans.

If we repeal this bill today, it's going to take away help for 45,000 seniors in Washington State who are relying on the efforts that we have done over the last couple of years to be sure that we are closing the Medicare doughnut hole. Repeal of the health care reform law is going to put those folks back into the doughnut hole.

Finally, we ought to oppose repeal of this bill because of the simple fact that there is a young woman in my district who has severe mental health illness and her family was able to take her onto their health care plan because of the provisions we have put in there about preexisting conditions. That family is now saving $10,000 a year out of pocket.

I am asking folks to oppose the repeal of this bill.

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