While McCarthy didn't vow that Republicans would actually keep those provisions intact, he seemed to think removing the individual mandate wouldn't devastate the law.
The real human impact of these laws is devastating and can't be underestimated: each day more people must sacrifice their safety and dignity because of who they are or whom they love.
The new laws follow devastating mass shootings and other terrorism-inspired assaults in San Bernardino, Paris, Brussels, Orlando, Dallas, and Nice.
Although morphine is one of the cheapest medications there is -- and God knows there's no shortage of opium poppies in Afghanistan or elsewhere -- cruel laws and devastating myths about these drugs prevent people in agony from having access to them.
Having quit the Conservative Party in protest at David Cameron's support for same-sex marriage, he blamed the passage of the law for devastating floods in England.
A recent survey by Resolution, the family lawyers' association, found that denying people the right to free legal advice would have a "devastating" impact on family law cases such as forced marriages.
Hillary Rodham Clinton uses the term "the trust divide" when she talks about the suspicion and hostility that have created such a devastating gap between the law-abiding residents of some big-city neighborhoods and the police officers who are supposed to protect and serve them.
They use italics to devastating effect, noting that these laws call for assessments, data collection, forecasts, improvements in understanding and all manner of other ground-laying efforts, but not one concrete action "to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in any real way".
But these arguments also tend to ignore the devastating consequences that weak gun laws have had for minority communities.
The state attorney in Tallahassee, Willie Meggs, who fought the law when it was proposed, said: "The consequences of the law have been devastating around the state.
