Majority Whip Scalise on the Hugh Hewitt Show: ‘American Families Have Not Been Telling Me They Want to Wait and Keep Obamacare in Place Longer’
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Check out the key moments below:
On the results shown in the CBO estimate:
"When we look at the CBO score, for all they might say about it, they confirm that it lowers premiums for families, it reduces the deficit, it cuts taxes over 800 billion, so it achieves the basic things we want to achieve in health care, which is giving people freedoms first, so that they can choose the plan they want. So what CBO says, that means that 14 million would choose to abandon Obamacare because it's so failed. That's not lost coverage, that's health care freedom. But ultimately, you put those choices back in the hands of families."
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"The main approach we have is to get the government mandates out of healthcare. That's what's destroying health care. And there are companies-insurance companies aren't writing policies anymore...We need to open up marketplace where everybody wants to come and offer you policies at whatever price you want to pay for whatever benefits you want."
On the conservative wins in the House plan:
"Again, this is the approach that many conservatives have been wanting for a long time.
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"Hugh this is a big point that's being lost, under our bill premiums actually start going down. One of the reasons you start seeing a lot of lower-income people get out of the marketplace altogether is because they can't afford Obamacare even with all of the tax benefits, you know the exchange subsidies that are out there, and then
On the need to act now:
"I would encourage my
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"I spoke to the President again [Tuesday], he's very engaged in this. He's talking to all of our members, I mean he's talking to different factions within our conference. And he recognizes, you know, that there is a delicate balance, health care is very complicated for a reason. There's a reason
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