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Howard Griffith: “I would also have to point out that, with everything that we've gotten to so far, it appears that their numbers have not…”

On the recordMay 15, 2013
I would also have to point out that, with everything that we've gotten to so far, it appears that their numbers have not been right. They told us that they could produce a long-term care insurance plan, and they backed out of that because they couldn't make the numbers work as they had originally thought they would work on long-term care insurance. Then we had the whole situation with the catastrophic illness fund that, from the time the bill was passed, was supposed to get folks who had catastrophic illnesses, it was going to cover all of them until ObamaCare came into effect in 2014, but they ran out of money March 1. Do you recall that?
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Howard Griffith
Republican · Virginia
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May 15, 2013

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