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Louie Gohmert: “Steve Forbes was up here on the Hill a couple of weeks ago. One of his comments was that we could do a complete repeal…”

On the recordMay 4, 2010
Steve Forbes was up here on the Hill a couple of weeks ago. One of his comments was that we could do a complete repeal, and at the same time we could put some fixes in there that Republicans had been proposing, that we have had out there as alternatives at the same time, just one fell swoop, so that people would realize that we have not been the Party of No, we have some fantastic ideas that would have revolutionized health care and gotten it back to where it had transparency, where it was affordable, and gotten insurance companies out of the health care management business and into the health care insurance business, where you insure against an unforeseeable illness or catastrophe down the road and put patients back in charge of their health care.
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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May 4, 2010

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Gohmert discusses health care reform and Republican alternatives to current policies.

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