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Louie Gohmert: I won't take long. I got this email from a constituent that, on Tuesday of last week, my 89-year old mother-in-law fell…

On the recordNovember 15, 2013
I won't take long. I got this email from a constituent that, on Tuesday of last week, my 89-year old mother-in-law fell and broke her hip. Her doctor gave her only a 50 percent chance of survival, but survive she did. He, the doctor, stated after the operation that she was lucky that it happened now, because ``in 2 weeks I could not have performed the same procedure because it is not an approved procedure under the new rules. It's too expensive.'' We all wondered what her chances of survival would have been under Dr. Obama. That is from Jay, in my district. There are all kinds of terrible things that are happening as a result of the passage of ObamaCare. I voted ``yes'' on the bill today. Apparently, the Senate is not going to take it up. It just said if the insurance companies could allow them to continue on their policies without making it illegal, as ObamaCare does, to keep those policies. We have numerous proposals. Anybody that says Republicans don't have any solutions, we have got numerous solutions. I filed a bill that would have been a better, far better bill to ObamaCare back before ObamaCare passed. CBO wouldn't score it. They helped the Democrats all they could, but especially after the director was woodshedded at the White House.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Nov 15, 2013

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