The Long Game, by Mitch McConnell: on Health Care

ObamaCare: the so-called cure worse than the disease

The proposed Affordable Care Act, which quickly became known as Obama Care, was awful. This so called cure--to overhaul the entire system--was worse than the disease. The cost was staggering, and it was extremely unwise to ask the government to take this on when it was straining under the healthcare it was already responsible for, Medicare and Medicaid. And few Americans believed that allowing the folks in charge of the IRSD to take over all American's health care, as the Affordable Care Act set out to do, was a step in the right direction.

My goal was clear from the beginning: because this was the worst bill to come across my desk in nearly 3 decades I'd served in the Senate, and because this was not anything like the bill we would have enacted, I didn't want a single Republican to vote for it. It had to be very obvious to the voters which party was responsible for this terrible bill, and I wanted a clear line of demarcation, they were for this and we were against it.

Source: The Long Game, by Mitch McConnell, p.190-191 May 31, 2016

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