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Joaquin Castro: This week, I thought it was astounding, in the course of less than 24 hours, the Senate was unable to pass a healthcare…

On the recordJuly 18, 2017
This week, I thought it was astounding, in the course of less than 24 hours, the Senate was unable to pass a healthcare bill. The President had promised for months that there would be a new healthcare bill to replace so-called ObamaCare. That failed in the Senate. And then the strategy after that became: Well, we are just going to repeal this, and we are going to give ourselves 2 years to come up with a replacement. That failed today, and I think it failed for good reasons, because that would be disastrous for the American people; 32 million people would be dropped from the healthcare rolls if all you did was repeal. So what were you hearing in this whole debate in Wisconsin from your constituents and your voters up there? Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Wisconsin.
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Joaquin Castro
Democratic · Texas
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Jul 18, 2017

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