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On the recordMay 4, 2017
This bill guarantees access for all. And when I say ``access,'' let me be clear: it is access for all. When you have insurance companies that are pulling out--today we learned Aetna is pulling out of Virginia--and when you have counties across these United States that no longer have anyone who is willing to provide the ObamaCare insurance, that is not access; When you have a situation where somebody comes up to you at the local county fair and says, ``You have got to get me out of ObamaCare. It is killing me. It is killing our family's finances because we have such a high deductible, because we have such a high copay, and my husband is very sick,'' he may have a piece of paper, Mr. Speaker, he may have a piece of paper, but it is not really health insurance when you can't really use it without having to sell off what little assets you may have or worry about whether or not you can afford to have a roof over your head any longer. This is not working. ObamaCare is not working. This bill will bring some sanity back to the system. It will take us a couple of years, but the rates of insurance will, in fact, come down. This business that we keep hearing that all these people are going to be without availability of insurance, it is just fake news. It is not true. This bill does everything that people want it to do, but it gives them choices--not mandates from the Federal Government, but choices-- about their health care.…
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Howard Griffith
Republican · Virginia
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May 4, 2017

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