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Steve Scalise: “Obamacare was really focused on moving everybody to a single…”

Featuring: Steve Scalise, Republican | House Majority Leader, U.S. House Louisiana, District 1

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Speaker Johnson Joins Steve Scalise and August Pfluger on the Right to the Point Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 12:17

And a horrible law we laid out during the debate on Obamacare why it was going to ruin what's good about health care. You know, if you really want to focus on the doctor patient relationship, Obamacare was really focused on moving everybody to a single payer healthcare system. A socialized, you know, big Marxist socialist form of socialized healthcare. Horrible policy, breaking up the doctor patient relationship. (12:17–12:23)

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Asserts that Obamacare aimed to transition the healthcare system to a single-payer model.

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