Roger Marshall: “my grandma taught me so many things and had so many great, old sayings. One of the things she taught me is that, if you…”

“my grandma taught me so many things and had so many great, old sayings. One of the things she taught me is that, if you have your health, you have everything. If you have your health, you have everything. I think that is one of the reasons I wanted to become a doctor. I wanted to help give people their health. But healthcare is in a crisis right now. Healthcare is in a crisis. Doctors think healthcare is in a crisis. Nurses think healthcare is in a crisis. Patients, families, Americans--we all think that healthcare is in a crisis. The Democrats' solution is, frankly, just to throw more money at the problem--to throw more money at the problem--which really inflates everybody else's costs of healthcare. What our party would like to do is to empower patients, not insurance companies. We want to put patients in charge, not insurance companies. Before we, you know, dive a little deeper into our bill that we are asking unanimous consent for today, I want to answer, I think, one of the toughest questions I have been asked. The question is--you know, when I go back home, in January, families are going to look to me and say: Why couldn't you fix healthcare? I want the record to show right now that the Democrats are walking away from a yearlong extension on the enhanced subsidies. They are walking away. We are offering it. I don't think the subsidies are a good idea--I never did--but my heart says it is the right thing to do.”