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On the recordDecember 17, 2025
Mr. Speaker, the unaffordable care act was born as a lie and continues to be promoted in terms that are lies. Mr. Speaker, do you remember these promises? If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health insurance, you can keep your insurance. Americans will save over $2,500 per year. All of those were lies, and now those who continue to support the unaffordable care act are misleading Americans about its current situation. When the law was first debated, Democrats insisted that only 50 million Americans couldn't afford health insurance. That was exposed as a lie. Many Americans proved simply to be forgoing insurance in many instances. Democrats used this as an excuse to rewrite the entire framework of the individual healthcare insurance marketplace, forcing people onto plans that had their premiums rise by 129 percent since 2014. Indeed, the very first year ObamaCare went into effect, premiums skyrocketed by 47 percent. This is the true record of the unaffordable care act. Despite the lies that continue to be told in the media to this day, Republicans have always proposed alternatives to the failed unaffordable care act framework that Democrats continue to force onto Americans.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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Criticizing the Affordable Care Act during a speech on the House floor.

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