Rep. Doggett on Republican Efforts to Repeal Health Reform: No Insurance Monopoly Should Stand Between You and Your Doctor

Full text of Rep. Doggett's remarks as prepared for delivery follow below:

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If you're hit by a truck this afternoon or your child contracts a dreaded disease, your future ought not to depend on the fine print in an insurance policy you didn't have anything to do with writing. No insurance monopoly should stand between you and your doctor.

Unfortunately, the Republican Party is but an arm of the insurance industry. They ask for a vote to further empower those monopolies; we ask for a vote to empower American families. A vote to repeal is a vote to maintain health care costs as the leading cause of personal bankruptcy and credit card debt in this country. It is a vote to require seniors to pay more— more for prescription drugs, more for diabetes and cancer screenings.

We can stand with American families today or we can kneel to insurance monopolies. The choice is clear: let's vote for American families.

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