Repealing health care reform would result in “killing Americans,” one Democratic lawmaker suggested Tuesday night.Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), in a speech on the House floor about the rhetoric surrounding Republicans’ bill to undo the new reform law, said repeal would result in more deaths in the U.S.”Frankly, I would just say to you, this is about saving lives. Jobs are very important; we created jobs,” Jackson Lee said. “But even the title of their legislation, H.R. 2, ‘job-killing’ — this is killing Americans if we take this away, if we repeal this bill.” Before the House of Representatives voted to repeal the year-old health care law, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, — who yesterday claimed repealing the measure was “unconstitutional” — appeared on Fox News’s Your World with host Neil Cavuto. In a very heated exchange, Jackson Lee argued that a repeal of President Obama’s signature health care law meant more Americans without insurance would die. But when Cavuto challenged her narrative — the story of an elderly woman who already receives Medicare — the Texas Democrat fired back, accusing Cavuto of being blinded by his opinion and ignorant of logic:

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