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Senator Cassidy says health care too expensive as Obamacare premiums rose 100% since law passed with fraud waste abuse

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says in floor remarks on health care fraud that sometimes in Washington you felt like there was nothing anyone could agree on but one thing they could all agree on no matter what your party was that health care was too expensive, stated they were doctor who worked at public hospital system for working uninsured and poorly uninsured and it was not just poor but middle-income Americans who had hard time affording health care, emphasized Obamacare came into existence and was supposed to decrease premiums by 2,400 dollars year and since then premiums had probably risen in aggregate 100 percent since law was passed as part of this was waste fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars making them paying higher premiums and taxpayer was getting ripped off as well with in November Federal jury in West Palm Beach convicting two individuals in 233 million dollar Obamacare fraudulent enrollment scheme.
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says in floor remarks on health care fraud that sometimes in Washington you felt like there was nothing anyone could agree on but one thing they could all agree on no matter what your party was that health care was too expensive, stated they were doctor who worked at public hospital system for working uninsured and poorly uninsured and it was not just poor but middle-income Americans who had hard time affording health care, emphasized Obamacare came into existence and was supposed to decrease premiums by 2,400 dollars year and since then premiums had probably risen in aggregate 100 percent since law was passed as part of this was waste fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars making them paying higher premiums and taxpayer was getting ripped off as well with in November Federal jury in West Palm Beach convicting two individuals in 233 million dollar Obamacare fraudulent enrollment scheme.
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