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On the recordJune 22, 2017
maybe I misunderstood the question initially. I would suggest to the Senator from Michigan that it is the Democrats, under ObamaCare, who burned down the house because the individual market for healthcare has been decimated--decimated. And we are coming to the rescue of those millions of people who don't have employer-provided insurance. They don't get their coverage under Medicare or any other government program. They get it from the individual market. We are talking about individuals and small businesses. Right now people have almost no choices in many parts of the country, and for those who have choices, it is simply unaffordable. It is an important conversation to have on drug prices and Medicare, and I am happy to do that. That would do nothing--zip, zero, nada--to help the people who are hurting now as a result of the failures of ObamaCare, and that is whom we are determined to help by passing this legislation after an open amendment process and fulsome debate. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Michigan.
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John Cornyn
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