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On the recordNovember 30, 2012
Well, one of the things that ObamaCare did was to provide, for those on Medicare, you get your annual checkups with no copay and cancer screening, no copays and deductibles. We're closing the doughnut hole. Under the Romney plan, because they're paying providers more, your copay part of that provider fee is more, so your copays and deductible would be more. That's for people over 55. People already on Medicare would pay more under the alternative than they're paying today. If you're under 55, you're at your $500 a month, every month, trying to make your health care, because the thing is that if Medicare is saving money, and the health care costs do not go down, then somebody's got to pay the difference. Adding insult to injury to that, you have corporate profits, dividends and commissions and everything else being siphoned off. So you not only have to pay the health care costs; you have to pay enough to cover the corporate profits. And so that's where senior citizens would be paying $500 a month, $6,000 a year more.
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia
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Nov 30, 2012

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