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Steve Scalise: “We drafted what became the American Health Care Reform Act.”

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 12:58

Let's get everybody at RC together and write our own bill that can not only repeal Obamacare, but replace it with better, smarter ideas to lower premiums for families, to restore the doctor patient relationship. And We drafted what became the American Health Care Reform Act. And you had members that weren't even in RSC that asked to be co sponsors of the bill because it was the only alternative to Obamacare that was out there. (12:58–13:02)

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Asserts that the Republican Study Committee drafted the American Health Care Reform Act as an alternative to Obamacare.

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