Cornyn: Obamacare a Failed, Partisan Experiment

'We're going to make sure that they have coverage that they choose and that they can afford, and I would welcome the assistance of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle to try to craft a bipartisan reform.'

WASHINGTON - Today on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed the need to repeal Obamacare, and the process of replacing the legislation with high quality, affordable health care. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn's remarks are below, and video of his remarks can be found here https://youtu.be/ZrEn5NYh9vE.

"Obamacare has been a failure, it's been a grand, in terms of scale, experiment, a national experiment, that has failed. Yesterday, I talked about the fact that my constituents were writing me, telling me that their premiums, in many instances, have doubled, and their deductible has gotten to the point that they are effectively self-insured, so that their insurance does them virtually no good."

"We're going to make sure that they have coverage that they choose and that they can afford, and I would welcome the assistance of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle to try to craft a bipartisan reform. The biggest failure of Obamacare was the fact that when our Democratic friends had 60 votes in the Senate and they had President Obama in the White House and a majority in the House, they jammed it down the throats of the American people. That's really why Obamacare is unsustainable, because it was purely a partisan political exercise."

"We're not going to let people fall through the cracks. We're going to work very carefully to make sure the transition is thought out, is methodical and very carefully done."

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