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State Health Care Premium Reduction Act

Floor Speech

Date: June 29, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health Insurance Health and Health Care

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Mr. ARRINGTON. Madam Speaker, at a time when our Nation is reeling from an unprecedented public health crisis and our fellow Americans are struggling just to survive, the Democrat leadership is wasting precious time on yet another partisan messaging bill.

This legislation is going nowhere, and my friends on the other side of the aisle know it. The name Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act is no such thing. It is the protecting ObamaCare act. It is the pretend we are legislating under the guise of partisan messaging act. It is the perpetuate the broken promises of ObamaCare act. It is empty; it is devoid; it is going nowhere. We are wasting time in this national crisis.

If it did pass, it would take flexibility and responsibility from States. It would coerce States to expand Medicaid--a flawed Medicaid system, I might add--and it would allow for these monies to be used on abortion, which is a nonstarter. We know it is not serious when that is in there. That is a poison pill.

Madam Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to stop wasting the American people's time, and let's get back to governing this great Nation.

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