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On the recordJuly 14, 2010
The whole health care law makes me nervous. I look at this and say that the underpinning of this law--the thing that holds it together--is the mandate on the American people that everyone buy insurance, that everyone has to have insurance at work or through Medicare or Medicaid, but if none of those work, you have to buy insurance. It is the government telling someone they have to buy it. So I have great concerns when a government thinks it is so powerful, and this body thinks it is so powerful--more powerful than the American people. I reject that, and I want to make sure that, as it gets to the Supreme Court, there are people on the Court who side with the American people and, most importantly, with the Constitution--what to me the tenth amendment means--and the people of Wyoming, which is that the government cannot come into our homes and say you must do this--you must buy this product.
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming

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