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On the recordMay 25, 2010
Right. Well it's a quasi-medical term which is equivalent to armchair quarterbacking or postmortem in which we look back and we go, How do things look now, looking back, as opposed to the way they looked then? You know, what we were saying during the debate is this: This bill is by no means really paid for, that there is smoke and mirrors about the financing, that it will definitely cost tax for the middle class, although the President said otherwise. The President said premiums would go down for insurance. We said they would go up. The President said people would get more care and better care, and we said, no, the care would be diluted, there would be less access to care.
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John Fleming
Republican · Louisiana

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