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On the recordDecember 2, 2015
today we are talking about repealing Obamacare and moving in a completely different direction toward more choices and lower costs for Americans as they search for their health care plans. I came to the floor yesterday and brought back a memory from 5\1/2\ years ago of the President's health care summit, nationally televised all day long at the Blair House, with 36 Members of Congress and the President of the United States. I had a chance, leading off for the Republican speakers that day, to say respectfully to President Obama: Mr. President, this health care plan of yours is going to impose a huge Medicaid unfunded mandate on State budgets, which will raise tuitions and take money from other State programs. It will take money out of Medicare and spend it on something else. It will increase taxes, it will raise premiums, and it will cost jobs. Unfortunately, that all turned out to be true. The Senator from Georgia, Mr. Isakson, was there, as I was, on that Christmas Eve. It was a cold night when the Democrats had, for a few months, 60 votes, and they rammed through Obamacare in the middle of the night with all Democratic votes, no Republican votes, with us warning what would happen. Now, I say to Senator Isakson, the premiums in Georgia, I believe will go up 29 percent for some plans.
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Heidi Alexander
Labour Party
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Dec 2, 2015

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