Scott Brown: We Did Health Care Very Differently in Massachusetts

‘It’s completely different. My blood was boiling listening to the president trying to say it’s the same’

BROWN: "As you know, they rammed it through congress, through reconciliation. We voted on it 198-2. We worked together to get it done, and when we rolled it out, we rolled it out incrementally. Rolled it out, checked it. Rolled it out, checked it, and fixed things along the way. We didn't just pay $400 million to a company that couldn't even create a website at taxpayer expense, and then pay additional money to fix it, and just push it out there without any check and balance. It's completely different, and my blood was boiling listening to the president trying to say that it's the same. They're not the same. They're both health care plans and that's about it."
KILMEADE: "But here's the other thing, it was democrats and republicans working together. It was an overwhelming number. Almost everybody voted for this, didn't they, except two?"
BROWN: "Yeah. 198-2. Business leaders, hospital leaders, all the elected officials who really played a role. Listen, I worked on it, I voted on it, monitored it all the way through. As you know, I was elected to try to stop ObamaCare. I would have voted, and I would have done my very best. But if you remember correctly, they sent down an interim senator, and they held my election up here for a couple of weeks playing games as usual, and I didn't get there 'til after they voted on it, so I wasn't able to do it. And then the democrats didn't vote to allow for the grandfathering, and they didn't vote on one amendment to try to make it better, and fix these problems. So shame on them now coming back three years later saying, 'oh, you know, we tried to do this, and we're shocked, we're shocked.' Listen, I'm shocked that people believed the president, and a lot of the democrats when they're talking about how surprised they are that all this is happening ... I said it."

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