On the recordDecember 19, 2013
I will first acknowledge that at 11:15 tonight we are going to be voting on the National Defense Authorization Act. It is a must-pass bill, one which has passed prior to December 31 every year for the last 53 years. So it is very significant, and I think people are tired of hearing about it because they recognize the significance and the fact that it has to be done. So I am not going to say anything about that. I originally came down to talk about the problems we are having in my State of Oklahoma. I have a long list of people from all throughout the State who have talked about their insurance being cancelled, the increase in the deductibles and the cost of insurance, and about the crisis we are facing in the State of Oklahoma with ObamaCare. Madam President, I will mention one thing which has been overlooked in this debate and which I have mentioned once before but a lot of people have not recognized, and this has come from the leaders on the Democrat side, including the President of the United States; that is, the ultimate goal of ObamaCare would be a single-payer system. A single-payer system is socialized medicine. It is kind of interesting. I remember when we had Hillary health care back in the early 1990s, and we asked the question, if it doesn't work in Denmark, it doesn't work in Sweden, it doesn't work in Canada, it doesn't work in the U.K., why would it work here? They never said it, but they were thinking: If I were running it, it would work here.…
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