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John Cornyn: “It will cost roughly two and a half trillion dollars.”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Floor Speech on Health Care Sunday Evening 12-20

Published | Video Starts at 03:47

And then of course, we know that this bill, without the phony accounting gimmicks like implementing a bill four years into a tenure budget window, it will actually fail in universal coverage. It will leave 23 million people uninsured, and It will cost roughly two and a half trillion dollars. and it will increase the cost of premiums for people who already have insurance. You know, what is so disgusting about this process is this is exactly confirms the most … (03:47–03:51)

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Asserts that the healthcare bill will cost approximately $2.5 trillion.

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