John Yarmuth

Oh, by the way, part of the ACA came out of the Heritage Foundation.

However, they neglected to mention the report's findings that I find most interesting. The authors of the Mercatus report said that national health spending would be 4 percent lower in 2031 under a single-payer system compared to current…

Canada is mentioned a lot of times and in a very mocking way.

As Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Health Subcommittee, I have been particularly focused on the high cost of prescription drugs.

Actually, the insurance part of it was a Republican idea, that we embraced, that they opposed.

That would be a pretty good gift to corporate America, wouldn't it, if we didn't charge them more some way?

Would any system that Republicans have devised be better off for people with preexisting conditions than a Medicare for All system would be?

And I challenged them on many occasions. I remember sitting in the Rules Committee one day testifying. I said, you know, there is a reason you don't have an alternative to the Affordable Health Care. The only alternative is a single-payer…

So he also made the point that people under a Medicare for All system might not have access to the latest technologies and innovations.

This is a bill sponsored by most House Democrats. It offers a unique American solution to a unique American problem that we are having to pay about the highest prices for prescription drugs anywhere in the world.

But when you consider financing the taxing system, you are looking at somebody who now is paying their share of the premium through their employer.

Can you imagine how that would be possible?

We won't allow for anyone who has paid their quarters in to retire into poverty.

Millennials are going to need Social Security more than Baby Boomers will need Social Security.

If we don't fix this, then it is a mathematical reality that they won't have the other.

The American people aren't stupid.

I think we are due for another increase [in the minimum wage].

I think that one of the saddest things we did was the tax cuts we did last year for people who didn't need them.

If someone is not willing to consider all of those options, then they are not serious about fixing this.

We want to protect Social Security.

I have introduced in the House with Representatives McBath and Blunt Rochester... a $.50 minimum retirement contribution.

The President's apparent unwillingness to reach a deal to increase budget caps sets the stage for more continuing resolutions or, worse, another shutdown.

The commander of NORTHCOM command said publicly that there is no military threat on the southern border, so spending money for a wall, potentially at the expense of health of our service members, just doesn't seem like the right priority.

Before spending more money and, potentially, lives on this endeavor, it is important to identify what we, as a country, and us, as a military, are trying to achieve.

I would respectfully disagree. There have been over 50 consecutive National Defense Authorization Acts signed into law.