I come to the floor today as the Democrats continue to scare the American public when it comes to their healthcare. This week's Democratic Presidential debate the other night in South Carolina was a free-for-all. Their frontrunner, a man I believe to be a dangerous democratic Socialist, Bernie Sanders, is in the spotlight, and he seems to be in the lead. Socialist tax-and-spend policies remain on full display. The top policy priority of the Democrats would destroy healthcare freedom in America. They are proposing a complete government takeover of our Nation's healthcare system--a complete government takeover. They call it Medicare for All, but let's take a look at what that actually means. It means that 180 million Americans who get their health insurance through work would lose that insurance. They would lose that health insurance. Washington bureaucrats would be in control of healthcare. The Sanders proposal has a price tag of $34 trillion--$34 trillion with a ``t.'' It would bankrupt the country and everyone in it. The only way to even try to pay for it is with massive, across-the-board tax hikes, and Bernie Sanders said he is willing to do it. Do not be deceived when they first talk about targeting the rich because the tax increases would hit working families and even people making $29,000 a year. That is according to Bernie Sanders' own math. And taxes are likely to double.…
On the recordFebruary 27, 2020
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