[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 13179]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, my entire caucus got the message. We 
understand Einstein's definition of insanity is doing the same thing 
over and over again, and the over and over again, my friend should 
understand, is the fact that Republicans have voted 70 times to repeal 
ObamaCare, each time with the same result. My friend should know that 
every one of my Senators got the memo, as he said.
  If someone would spend a minute each day flipping through the 
newspapers about health care, they would understand that ObamaCare has 
changed America for the better. Twenty million people now have the 
opportunity to go to the doctor when they are sick or to the hospital 
when they are hurt. That wasn't the way it used to be, and the American 
people are beginning to realize that the constant carping about 
ObamaCare from the Republicans is wrong. It is wrong for a number of 
reasons. The American people are beginning to realize that with just a 
little bit of help, ObamaCare could be made even better. A report came 
out yesterday that premiums for ObamaCare are still less than employer 
programs. It is about 3 percent lower than the company-run plans.
  The marketplace is what it is all about, and that is what is 
determining what is happening with ObamaCare. The disabled can get 
insurance, young men and women can stay on their parents' insurance 
until the age of 26. Insurance companies are limited in how they can 
punish people, as they did in the past. They can't set an arbitrary 
limit as to how much insurance they would provide. If somebody was hurt 
in a serious accident, they would just terminate them from the 
insurance, not to mention all of the other things. We were at their 
mercy. Obviously Republicans want to go back to that same system, and 
it is not a good system.

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