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On the recordJanuary 7, 2011
If you're hit by a truck this afternoon or your child contracts a dread disease, your future ought not to depend on the fine print in an insurance policy you didn't have anything to do with writing. No insurance monopoly should stand between you and your doctor. Unfortunately, the Republican Party has become little more than an arm of the insurance monopolies. They ask for a vote to further empower those monopolies, and we ask for a vote to empower American families. A vote to repeal is a vote to maintain health care costs as the leading cause of bankruptcy and credit card debt in this country. It is a vote to require seniors to pay more, more for prescription drugs, and more for diabetes and cancer screenings. We can stand with American families today or we can kneel to the insurance monopolies. The choice is clear--let's vote for American families.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas
Source
govinfo.gov
Jan 7, 2011

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Doggett addresses the impact of health care policies on American families and the influence of insurance companies.

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