we're going to hear a lot of buzzwords by opponents of the baldwin lootion. they are going to talk about how they're offering flexibility and they're offering patient-centered care, but that's just a bunch of eyewash because what they really do, as you touched on, is fail to give patients care when they most need care. so today americans ought to be protected from these worthless predatory scams. and one of the things that i was proudest of, really before my colleagues came here, is i wrote a piece of legislation, the help the americans act. a number of republican senators, by the way, were cosponsors of this bill, and it had air-tight, loophole-free protection to ensure that people with preexisting conditions didn't face discrimination. and we by and large got that provision into the affordable care act, and it meant, as john mccain knew -- we often talked about it -- that health care would no longer be there just for the healthy and the wealthy. there would be real protection for those with preexisting conditions. and that was, for all practical purposes, r