Dan Coats: “for those of us who were seeking office for the Senate in 2010, one of the primary issues we were engaged with and heard…”

“for those of us who were seeking office for the Senate in 2010, one of the primary issues we were engaged with and heard from tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of our citizens about was the concern over the passage of the Affordable Care Act, now called ObamaCare and now also called the Unaffordable Care Act. That was the bill that was jammed through the Senate on Christmas Eve without one Republican vote. Republicans were denied that vote because the Democratic Party controlled both the executive branch and the legislative branch, with numbers that put them in a position where they could jam anything through that they wanted without any offsets, without any amendments, without any changes, without any improvements, without any input from the other party. I think we have learned through history that when one party has total control and passes legislation, it doesn't represent what the American people want. They want debate. They want adjustments. They want the other side of the story to be told. Then they want their representatives to be able to come to a kind of consensus in terms of how we would deal with, yes, an important issue called health care for the American people. Were there needed improvements in our health care system that had to be addressed? Yes, there were.…”