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On the recordJune 12, 2019
I come to the floor of the Senate today to remind people what the far-left Democrats want to do with our healthcare. I am a doctor. I think it is a right people have to know what the Democrats are proposing. They are peddling what to me is an extreme one-size-fits-all healthcare plan. It is a scheme, as I look at it, because, essentially, Democrats want Washington to take over your healthcare and my healthcare and the healthcare of all Americans and actually control all healthcare in this Country. They want to take private health insurance away from 180 million people who get their insurance through work. Under this system, the health plans that many people like will be gone--not just for today, not just for tomorrow, forever gone. There will be no more individual plans, just Washington's one-size-fits-all plan. Democrats have been lining up to support this socialist scheme all across the country. Many leading Democrats running for President have done so. They back it, and 112 Democrats who are Members of the House of Representatives are behind it as well. Radical Democrats, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, have decided that Washington bureaucrats--not you, not me, not your doctor--should call the shots. What care do you need? Washington, DC, bureaucrats will decide. How soon will you get the care? Washington, DC bureaucrats will decide. Where can you get the care? Washington, DC, bureaucrats will decide.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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Jun 12, 2019

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