Political Quotes

On the recordMarch 24, 2017
I thank the gentleman from Texas for his remarkable leadership in this important debate. Seven years ago, I was on this floor and I heard that, if you liked your plan, you could keep it. I heard, if you liked your doctor, you could keep that doctor. And I heard that healthcare costs were going to drop by $2,500 per family. None of it was true. I sit here now and look at my State, and I know what is happening next year. The rates on the ObamaCare exchanges are going up by 69 percent. We are down to a single provider. That is what 7 years ago brought us. Today we have a chance to do something different, and everybody from my State will do something different. They will vote for a plan that actually does what it says it is going to do. Number one, they will be able to actually have plans that are designed by Oklahomans, not by bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. They will be able to have a tax credit, if they are not already insured under Medicaid or Medicare or from their employer. They will be able to have an individual tax credit to purchase a plan that they design, that they like. They will be free of the mandates of ObamaCare, free to make their own decisions, free of the mandates that require them to buy insurance products that they simply don't need. I have got a lot of people in my district that are in their fifties and sixties.…
Said by
Tom Cole
Republican · Oklahoma
Source
govinfo.gov
Mar 24, 2017

Share

More from Tom Cole

Mar 11, 2025

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton).

govinfo.gov
Mar 11, 2025

In that case, may I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma has 6 minutes remaining.

govinfo.gov
Mar 29, 2025

I don’t think you’re likely to see a Republican House and Republican Senate try to limit a Republican president.

nbcnews.com
Apr 7, 2025

This is a little bit unusual. I have comments on my friend Wes Watkins, as well. I want to talk a little bit off the cuff about the man that my good friend and colleague Frank Lucas was talking about a few minutes ago. Wes Watkins liked to…

govinfo.gov

Other voices in this conversation