I thank the distinguished chairman of the Budget Committee, who has spent a great deal of time on this. I like the way he put that because I think what we want to assure people of--at least, I think that is what almost all of us feel--is that this is step 1. It involves reforms, replacing, and repealing--as the President-elect has said, ``simultaneously,'' and as the Speaker has said, ``concurrently.'' It involves not just one big system replaced by another big system. In our view, the one big system needs to be replaced step-by-step by many different systems as we move more decisions to the States. For example, on employer insurance, or people who get their insurance on the job, we know right now steps that we can take to repeal ObamaCare, which damaged the employer system and which increased costs for employers. I remember sitting around with a group of restaurant company chief executive officers 6 years ago when ObamaCare passed. They pointed out that they were going have to hire fewer people to afford the cost of ObamaCare. We don't want that to happen. We would like for them to be able to hire more people and to offer more people insurance. How would we do that?…
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