Troy Downing: “I rise today to discuss or to comment on what I see is the biggest fraud this body has ever put upon the American…”

“I rise today to discuss or to comment on what I see is the biggest fraud this body has ever put upon the American people. Let's go back to the beginning of the unaffordable care act, ObamaCare. How was this sold to the American people? You can keep your doctor if you like them. You can keep your plan. Your insurance premiums are going to go down. I will tell you, all of that--I will tell you; this is one time that both the Republicans and Democrats agree, that it did not deliver on that. The Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare, has been one of the biggest drivers in increasing not just the cost of health insurance but the cost of healthcare. To continue this deception, it was clear that this plan would not work. You don't have to be a Ph.D. in mathematics to understand why. As you start to add things--the essential health benefits that you added onto these policies, these required benefits, as you started to add things that had to be covered--and I am not saying whether those were good or bad. But if you add expenses, you can't make prices go down. It would be like saying if you went to a fast food restaurant and ordered a soda and the price is going to go down but they have to give you a free cheeseburger as well. It just doesn't make common sense. It doesn't make mathematical sense. So to further this deception, they realized that it only worked by subsidizing it. You had to levy a tax to subsidize it.”