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| GOP Doctors Caucus: Health Care’S Broken Promises |
April 17, 2012 |
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Phil Gingrey, R-GA
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"Mr. Speaker, continuing on the line of reasoning that Dr. Fleming just outlined in talking about not indexing these benefits for inflation, in fact, another thing that needs to be pointed out is that under current law in creating these exchanges and in trying to help people who are uninsured because it's not affordable to them, we, the taxpayers, are going to subsidize people who purchase health insurance on these State exchanges even if they make up to 400 percent of the Federal poverty level. For a family of four, that's $85,000 to $90,000 a year. If John Q. Public knew that we were forcing them to subsidize the purchase of health insurance for people making up to $90,000 a year, they would be appalled; but that, in fact, is the case."
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