Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015

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Mr. ROKITA. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Price, as well as the
entire Committee on the Budget, for getting us to this point, the first
time in over a decade that we have been able to use the reconciliation
process.

Just like the other gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Woodall) stated, what
a difference the way we are using it now in this bipartisan fashion, in
a transparent lie today, a long process, not the day before Christmas
Eve and not in a partisan way. That was used the last time regarding a
major healthcare change of policy in this country.

I think all of us deserve to not only pat ourselves, quite honestly,
a little bit on the back, but also take advantage of this moment to end
the lie, the lie being, ``If you like your healthcare plan, you can
keep it.'' That lie continues today, and it has become a full-blown
nightmare.

Getting this reconciliation package to the President's desk is real
and a real positive step in ending government-controlled health care in
this country so that patients of whatever condition in a consumer-
based, consumer-centered fashion can use their own judgment, their own
resources, along with the help of all of us, to get the health care
that they need.

I doubt that 15 million people are actually covered better today than
they were or could have been before. That should be our goal: to cover
every American in the fashion that they deserve, in the fashion that
they choose, with the doctor that they choose.
Mr. Chairman, I thank you for your leadership. I urge my colleagues
to vote for this reconciliation package.

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