John Larson said "But you cannot convince me that that mandate was helping lower income Americans, because those same lower income Americans talked about, to me at home, how they couldn't afford the plan and they couldn't afford the penalty." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMarch 26, 2019

But you cannot convince me that that mandate was helping lower income Americans, because those same lower income Americans talked about, to me at home, how they couldn't afford the plan and they couldn't afford the penalty.

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John Larson

Democratic · Connecticut

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Editor's note · Context

Larson argues the individual mandate burdens low-income Americans financially.

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