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Medicare Access And CHIP Reauthorization Act Of 2015

Floor Speech

Date: April 14, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Minors and Children Entitlements and the Safety Net Health and Health Care

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Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, Speaker Boehner and Leader Pelosi have negotiated a package which enjoyed broad bipartisan support in the House. The one missing element is a pay-for for the so-called doc fix, for the sustainable growth rate fix. What my amendment does is offer that pay-for so that this is a deficit-neutral bill if it is adopted.

In order to find that pay-for, we would repeal the individual mandate. The latest CBO score shows it would save as much as $400 billion. It hasn't been scored this year, so the number may be off a little bit, but there is more than an adequate amount of money to offset the deficit caused by this permanent doc fix.

I ask my colleagues to join me, along with then-Senator Barack Obama in 2008 in his campaign against Hillary Clinton, who when he was running for the Democratic nomination campaigned against the individual mandate.

Let's make that reality.


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