Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) wants to make sure that the health insurance business gets at least 72 hours to read the bill. (Roberts has received $710,000 in political contributions from the health care industry over the past two years.) Said Roberts:
But the thing that I’m trying to point out is we would have at least 72 hours for the people that the providers have hired to keep up with all of the legislation that we pass around here, and the regulations that we pass around here, to say “hey, wait a minute. Have you considered this?”
Yesterday, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) requested time to discuss his "Grassley F-1 Modified Amendment," which would "eliminate $7 billion a year in fees that the government would charge private health insurance companies, and make up the shortfall by reducing benefits to poor people and legal immigrants."
In other words, the Grassley amendment would take money from poor people and give it to insurance companies. Every Republican on the committee voted for it, and then they wonder why only 20% of the people identify as Republicans.
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