I think my last comment will be more of a comment than a question. We have heard in recent days that the cost of the ACA is going down to an estimate of about $1.2 trillion, with somewhere between 27 and 34 million Americans still uninsured in the next 10 years. My thought is that we ought not celebrate the reduction of a cost, because fewer people are actually using it.
Tim Scott: “I think my last comment will be more of a comment than a question. We have heard in recent days that the cost of the ACA…”
On the recordMarch 18, 2015
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Scott critiques the ACA's cost reduction amid persistent uninsured rates.
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