Roy Blunt: “I wish to talk a little bit about health care this morning. The majority leader has suggested in past weeks that all of…”

“I wish to talk a little bit about health care this morning. The majority leader has suggested in past weeks that all of these contacts and concerns I get from Missourians are just made up--although he didn't target Missourians and say only Missourians were making up these stories; he just said everybody was making up these stories. But that is clearly not true. The law regarding health care--the law that is applied every day with great consistency--continues to be the law of unintended consequences, the law that so often is impacted by what we think we are doing in the Congress, only to find that the consequences of those actions go well beyond the discussion the Congress was having. Certainly if we had that debate again today, the debate we had in 2009 and early 2010, the Congress would be better prepared for that debate, the country would be better prepared for that debate, and people would understand what is at stake. What I see every day are things that people didn't anticipate would happen. Here is a letter we got from Jack in Kansas City, MO. He said: I'm a retired hospital CEO and glad to be retired because of Obamacare. He points out in an absolutely correct way that in most communities in Missouri, particularly our small and midsized communities, the hospital is a real source of pride and place of healing, a major employer.…”