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On the recordApril 17, 2012
In this hour, I and my colleagues who will be joining me very shortly--other physicians who are from the GOP Doctors Caucus, perhaps nurses, and other health care workers as well-- in this next hour we're going to be talking about our favorite subject, and that is health care reform. We're going to be talking about specific aspects, things that have actually come to light to us that I think are important. We're going to have other things that in the coming days we're going to learn about how ObamaCare was passed, what things were done by the other side of the aisle to make that happen, things that maybe some would call sausage-making, others would say it's improper. But we'll certainly spend some time on that as the days come. I want to continue a theme that we've been discussing, and that is the broken promises of ObamaCare. Remember, to get ObamaCare passed, President Obama made a number of promises. I'll start with the first one that is relevant to our topic tonight, and that is: Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. That was candidate Obama, Senator Obama at the time, who talked about all the number of things that were going to be good about ObamaCare; but in fact we see that virtually everything that's come up, with a few possible exceptions, has not been so favorable.…
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John Fleming
Republican · Louisiana
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Apr 17, 2012

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