Marsha Blackburn: “This has been an interesting week for many of my constituents in Tennessee. Over 100,000 Tennesseeans were…”

“This has been an interesting week for many of my constituents in Tennessee. Over 100,000 Tennesseeans were forced--100,000 Tennesseeans were forced off their healthcare plan. They did nothing wrong. It is not their fault. What has happened is another of the Affordable Care Act's--or ObamaCare, as we call it--providers has said: Guess what. This is too expensive to offer a product. And they have exited the marketplace. Now, what we are seeing is exactly what we in Tennessee told you would happen with ObamaCare. Why? Because in Tennessee, we were the test case back in the midnineties for Hillary Clinton's grand healthcare experiment. HillaryCare became TennCare in Tennessee. We knew that a product that was too expensive to afford was not going to be utilized and that eventually providers would drop out of the marketplace, eventually the networks would narrow, and eventually individuals would have a very difficult time accessing health care. {time} 1100 So, through no fault of their own, 100,000 Tennesseeans who are in the Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville areas are going to find that they have fewer choices in health care. They didn't get to keep the doctors whom they wanted or liked or had. They didn't get to keep the healthcare plans that they wanted or liked or had. Certainly, they were not saving $2,500 per family on their health insurance. Quite the opposite has happened.…”