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On the recordDecember 15, 2011
I come to the Senate floor today, as I have just about every week since the health care law was passed, to give a doctor's second opinion about the health care law. I do that because I practice medicine in Casper, WY, as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families from all across our State, and I have significant concerns about the health care law as it was passed, the way it was passed, and what was included in the law. So I come to the floor today because the American people continue to see one news story after another uncovering another error in the health care law, another mistake in the health care law, another glitch in the health care law. Call it what you will, we continue to see more of the health care law's unintended consequences--something that those who voted for it didn't foresee as happening--and we are also seeing another one of the President's broken promises. I come to share with the American people concerns I have as more and more of these things come forward because hard-working individuals and families all across the Nation realize this health care law was not passed for someone such as them. What people asked for, the reason we went through the discussion and the debate had to do with the fact that people wanted the care they need, from the doctor they want, at a cost they can afford.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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Dec 15, 2011

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