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Iowa delegation reactions to healthcare reform
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Mar. 22, 2010 5:30 pm
- Democrat Bruce Braley, 1st District: “This bill will decrease health insurance costs, expand access to quality, affordable health care, improve reimbursements for Iowa medical providers and allow Americans to maintain their choice of health insurance. ... After reading the bill, listening to my constituents and debating the bill's provisions in Congress, I'm convinced this legislation is good for Iowa.”
- Democrat Dave Loebsack, 2nd District: “This health care bill will put patients over insurance company profits, and reverse the increasingly disturbing trends in our health care system. This bill ends the worst insurance industry practices, and takes steps towards giving Iowans with insurance, as well as those without insurance, the peace of mind that comes with having stable, quality health care.”
- Democrat Leonard Boswell, 3rd District: “I voted today for legislation that levels the playing field for all Iowans by holding the health insurance industry accountable and preventing denials of care and coverage, including for pre-existing conditions. I voted to make health insurance more affordable for the middle class and small businesses and to finally put American families and businesses in control of their own health care.”
- Republican Tom Latham, 4th District: “The overwhelming lesson learned from tonight's vote is that Washington has no interest in listening to the American people. Iowans have made it clear their top health care priority is lower health insurance premiums and lower health care costs without threatening their own access to health care. Not one provision in the thousands of pages of the Democrat bill will lower premiums or costs by a single penny.”
- Republican Steve King, 5th District: “The majority of Americans ... will not stand by while Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi tear the Constitution to shreds. Americans across the country are outraged that liberals have made an unconstitutional bill full of special interest bribes the law of the land. ... Now the work begins to repeal this monstrosity and restore the principles of freedom that made America a great nation.”
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