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Repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 3, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health Insurance

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Mr. NEWHOUSE. Thank you to the gentleman from Alabama.

Mr. Speaker, since its hasty passage in 2010, ObamaCare has been
detrimental to American families, businesses, and taxpayers. Americans
were promised that they could keep their health care plans and see
their premiums decrease. Instead, they have been irreparably harmed by
the elimination of their existing health care plans and pushed into a
one-size-fits-all health care system--a system that fails to consider
individual needs and that eliminates choice of physicians while
families are faced with soaring premiums.

The cost of implementing ObamaCare has crippled businesses, hurting
the drivers of our economy. Small and large businesses have been forced
to pass these increased costs on to their employees, resulting in a
decreased workforce, lower wages, and delayed hiring. ObamaCare has
hurt economic growth at a time when we can least afford it, damaging
our fragile economic recovery.

Put simply, a government-centered approach to health care is not the
answer. I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this legislation.

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