Jeb Hensarling: “I have seen a lot of cancer in the families of friends, something I take very, very seriously. And to think that now we…”

“I have seen a lot of cancer in the families of friends, something I take very, very seriously. And to think that now we are going to have a health insurance program ostensibly counting on 22 million more Americans to take up smoking is frankly beyond insulting. It is beyond ludicrous. For the life of me I cannot fathom why any type of system would be created, and then as an irony, and I make this point as an aside, the tax would go mainly to those who are making less than 200 percent of poverty level, the same people that ostensibly this program is due to help. Fifty-four percent of all smokers are in families making less than $42,000 a year.”