McConnell On Obamacare: The American People Deserve A Better Way Forward

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the health care reform bill proposed by Senators Graham and Cassidy:

“Last night on television, we saw a stark contrast between two different visions of health care in our country. One is an idea that’s gaining increasing currency with our friends across the aisle. Some call it ‘Single Payer.’ Others try to dress it up with poll-tested PR labels.

“But no matter what you call it, at its core here’s what it is: a massive expansion of a failed idea, a quadrupling down on the failures of Obamacare, a totally government-run system that would rip health insurance plans away from even more Americans and take away even more of their most personal health-care decisions.

“The costs of implementing it would be astronomical. The taxes required to pay for it would be sky-high. And yet, after years of Obamacare’s failures— its higher costs, and diminished choices, and collapsing markets— it seems this is the best our Democratic friends can come up with: Not a new idea, but quadrupling down on an old one that has already failed.

“What a contrast with the general approach that Senators Graham and Cassidy, and many other Republicans, have pursued. We think the American people deserve a better way forward: like returning more power from the federal government to the states where Americans actually live, and allowing for reforms that can actually lower costs and improve care, and actually moving beyond the growing failures of a failed law called Obamacare.

“So, like I said, what we saw last night reminds us of this stark contrast in vision. It’s an important debate for our country. It’s one that will certainly continue.”