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Healthcare

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 25, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

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Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, by now, we all know the pain ObamaCare continues to inflict on our families, our communities, and our country.

Skyrocketing prices, disappearing choices, failing markets--that is the legacy of ObamaCare. It has hurt so many already. Without reforms, it will hurt even more Americans as it continues a year-long march toward total collapse.

Across the aisle, there are two basic schools of thought on what to do about this. One is essentially nothing. Two is to quadruple down on ObamaCare with a massive expansion of a failed idea--a fully government-run system that would strip even more Americans of their healthcare plans and take away even more of their health decisions.

Neither of these options is acceptable.

If ObamaCare's failure has shown us anything, it is that we need new ideas and a better approach. That is what the Senate pursued this summer. That is what Senators Graham and Cassidy are pursuing now. I would like to thank them for all of their dedicated work.

I would also like to thank the committees that worked so hard on this legislation as well, including the Budget Committee under Chairman Enzi, the HELP Committee under Chairman Alexander, and the Finance Committee under Chairman Hatch, which just held a hearing on the bill this afternoon.

I would like to thank each of these committees, their chairs, their members, and their staffs for their hard work to provide the American people with a better way than ObamaCare and its years of failure.

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