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Congressional Republicans are confronting this reality, even though they don’t realize it and would never admit we already have a single-payer system.

In 2014, I testified before U.S. Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), now the House Speaker, at a congressional hearing about poverty in America. Every other person who testified that day knew about poverty because they had studied it. I was the only one there actually living it.

Kentucky Congressman John Yarmuth, Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following statement on the release of the Congressional Budget Office’s Long-Term Budget Outlook.

“This is vindication for the Affordable Care Act and a lifeline for the millions of American families whose health coverage and care was threatened by this repeal legislation."

"This legislation now allows insurers to end coverage for prescription drugs, mental health, maternity and newborn care, preventive care, emergency room visits, hospitalizations, outpatient care, rehab visits, lab services, and pediatric care. That’s not progress. That’s not a fix – that’s a health crisis for every American with a pre-existing condition."

"It is astounding and appalling that Republicans in Congress are negotiating with the health and well-being of American families. They have no moral compass."

Ranking Member Yarmuth today testified at a meeting of the House Committee on Rules against the Republicans’ health care repeal bill.