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On the recordJune 28, 2017
I come to the floor today as the pain of ObamaCare around the country continues to worsen. Healthcare prices continue to rise. ObamaCare is collapsing, basically, more and more every day. People in every State of this Union have seen their healthcare costs skyrocket. It has happened everywhere around the country. We must do something to help the American people who are suffering under the heavy weight that ObamaCare has placed on their lives. I was at a hospital this past weekend in Casper, WY, my hometown, and I talked to doctors, nurses, and patients. What I hear at home in Wyoming is that there is an urgent need to do something about the high costs and the limited choices under the Obama healthcare law. We are having discussions right now about the very best way to do that. Whatever we come up with, it is going to be a fundamental change in a direction away from ObamaCare. That is what America wants. That is what America needs. It is what the American people are asking us to do. One of the biggest steps we need to take is to get rid of the ObamaCare mandates and penalties. I hear about it day in and day out.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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Jun 28, 2017

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