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On the recordFebruary 26, 2014
over the last many months millions of Americans have signed up for affordable health insurance, many for the first time ever, many for the first time in many years. Millions of young people have stayed on their parents' insurance plans while they pursue higher education to start their first jobs. Millions of senior citizens have saved money on prescriptions--these prescription bills, they average about $1,200 they have saved, each senior--and tens of millions of women have access to free preventive care. Across the country, Americans who were once denied insurance because they suffered from something like cancer or something as simple as acne were able to buy affordable, quality health insurance they could afford and they could trust. Despite all that good news, there are plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they are being told all over America. The leukemia patient whose insurance policy was canceled and would die without her medication--Mr. President, that is an ad being paid for by two billionaire brothers that is absolutely false; or the woman whose insurance policy went up $700 a month--ads paid for around America by the multibillionaire Koch brothers, and the ad is false. We heard about the evils of ObamaCare, about the lives it is ruining in the Republican stump speeches and in ads paid for by oil magnets, the Koch brothers.…
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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govinfo.gov
Feb 26, 2014

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