https://audioboom.com/posts/5889762-u-s-representative-peter-roskam-explains-his-vote-for-the-new-healthcare-bill
Republicans narrowly passed their repeal of Obamacare yesterday 217-214. Three prominent Republican Illinois Congressmen were still undecided yesterday morning, but by afternoon Representatives Peter Roskam, Adam Kinzinger and Randy Hultgren all agreed to vote in favor of the bill. Congressman Peter Roskam joined Big John and Ray to explain why he eventually voted yay. “If you’re in my constituency right now, and if you’re in the individual market, if you’re in Lake, McHenry or Kane county you only have one insurer that you can have access to,” Roskam told WLS AM 890. “Let’s take some things that we liked from the Affordable Care Act, because there were some things we liked. We liked the preexisting condition protection, we liked the guaranteed issue, we liked the fact that there were no lifetime caps, we liked that 26-year-olds could be on their parents’ coverage. Let’s take those things and drop the other things.”
Roskam also pointed out that Obamacare was going to be a problem from the start. “Go back to when President Obama won his election. I think there was a national consensus on healthcare on two issues that most Americans agreed on,” Roskam continued. “First one is that healthcare was too expensive and many of the cost drivers were not making us any healthier. And the second was it really bothered us that someone with preexisting conditions wouldn’t have access to insurance. Rather than go that route and fixing those two problems, they went the other route, made a bunch false claims about ‘you can keep your doctor, you can keep your coverage and everybody is going to save $2,500’ and it turned out not to be true.”
