Roger Marshall: “I greatly respect the words and have great respect for the Senator, my colleague and good friend from Delaware. And I…”

“I greatly respect the words and have great respect for the Senator, my colleague and good friend from Delaware. And I know both of us share the same heart--that we want every American to have meaningful access to healthcare. There are many things we agreed upon. The PBM Disclosure Act is but one example. Bringing down the cost of prescription drugs would be a huge priority for us as well. We both agree that fraud is a problem. Take this bill and improve it. Is it too little? It probably is too little. But it is a start; it is a framework. You have the legislative text. Look, I have become very pragmatic in my days in Washington. I can't change what happened in 2010, before I got here. I can't change all the histories of dealing with healthcare. I can't change the fact that we have 100 Senators with 100 ideas to fix ObamaCare. I have already said ObamaCare--tackling ObamaCare is like tackling a buffalo that just ran through a barbed-wire fence; and every time you try to pull a layer of that barbed wire off, you get poked with it. I understand that. But this is a great framework. It is my effort at a bipartisan framework to get us started. And, again, offering the olive leaf of extending the Biden-era subsidies for another year, I think, is just the biggest olive branch I can make. Again, come January, my Democrat friends are going to have to answer that question: Why did you walk away from Senator Marshall's plan to extend those subsidies for a year?”