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On the recordDecember 19, 2018
reserving the right to object, whether you support ObamaCare or oppose it--and I clearly oppose it--it remains the law. The decision in the Texas case is being appealed, and I expect it will eventually end up before the Supreme Court. Regardless of what happens in this legal process, our commitment has always been to protect people with preexisting conditions. As a doctor and husband of a breast cancer survivor who has had three operations and who has been through chemotherapy twice, I know the importance of making sure that patients can get access to quality healthcare at an affordable cost. Since ObamaCare passed, this has not happened for many families I speak to in Wyoming. They keep telling me that ObamaCare has made their insurance unaffordable, whether it is premiums, copays--all of it. It has made it more difficult to get the care they need. Simply put, they know ObamaCare has failed because they personally have experienced the law's sky-high premiums and few choices. It has taken Washington Democrats a little longer to figure this out. Now they are clamoring for a federally mandated, single-payer system. They want a healthcare system dominated and controlled by Washington. As a doctor, my focus is on making healthcare better for patients, period. It shouldn't take a judge to force us to get it done. We need to reform healthcare to give American families better care at a lower cost, which ObamaCare failed to deliver.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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Dec 19, 2018

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