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On the recordJune 9, 2015
this morning President Obama will be speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. Now, the White House says the President will talk about his health care law. The President has already been spending a lot of time talking about the law. At the G7 summit in Germany this past weekend, the President was asked about the law and what he said is: ``The thing is working.'' He said: ``We haven't had a conversation about the horrors of ObamaCare because none of them have come to pass.'' The President must be kidding himself. This morning, when he talks to this Catholic health care group, President Obama should stop his denial and he should confess the truth. If he gives another rosy speech about the impact of this terrible law, he will be, once again, intentionally and deliberately misleading the people in his audience. The President should not stand on the stage today and pretend his law is helping more people than it hurts. He should not stand on that stage today and pretend he hasn't heard that his law is causing premiums to skyrocket. He should not stand on that stage today and pretend he has kept his promises about this law. He should not stand on that stage today without admitting his law has cut into the take-home pay of millions of hard-working Americans. What the President should do is talk about how his health care law has hurt nonprofit hospitals like the Catholic hospitals across the country.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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Jun 9, 2015

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