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Health care should be first and foremost about providing the highest quality of care for patients. This requires an environment that fosters greater innovation and more medical breakthroughs.

"I’ve been a longtime proponent of making bipartisan improvements to the Affordable Care Act, including at every hearing that we’ve had in my committee — the Energy and Commerce Committee — where I’ve said if Republicans would give up this idea of repealing the ACA and work with Democrats to improve it, we could make a lot of progress."

“After seven years of noisy party wrangling, I can confidently stand here today and say there is a path going forward to strengthen our health care system. There are reasonable, effective solutions that can secure bipartisan support and help us fulfill the duties that we as elected officials have to our constituents and to all Americans,” Ms. DeGette said at the National Press Club in downtown D.C.

“This bad bill would rip health insurance away from millions of people — 24 million over ten years, and 14 million next year alone,” DeGette said. “Democrats believe we can and should work together to improve the ACA, not to vote on a misguided bill that would gut it.”

"Until now, we haven't talked at all about compromise on the Affordable Care Act," said Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado. "From the moment it passed, Republicans started their mantra of 'repeal and replace.' Now that repeal seems to be off the table, I think it's in everybody's interest to make the law work better for our constituents."

"Diana is continuing a strong tradition of making sure that women’s views are represented in Congress,” says Karen Middleton, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado and a former state legislator. “She’s really been a part of why we continue to see more women rising in leadership in the state."

I urge all our colleagues to throw out the American Health Care Act and instead work across the aisle to make coverage more affordable. With a little political courage, Congress can accomplish this goal for the American people without hurting millions of them in the process.

“I think once Americans see what’s really in this bill, they’re going to react in a very negative way,” she said, calling the bill “devastating for working families in America.”