Rep. McDermott: It’s ‘Not American’ To Remove Individual Mandate for Health Insurance
‘They want to take out the individual mandate somehow – that we think we should have people just riding on the backs of other people in this country’
Rep. McDermott: It's ‘Not American’ To Remove Individual Mandate for Health Insurance (CNS News)
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) says removing the federal government's individual mandate to purchase health insurance is “not American.”
McDermott told C-Span’sWashington Journal Tuesday, that Republican efforts to remove the government mandate to purchase health insurance from the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) will not work.
“They want to take out the individual mandate somehow – that we think we should have people just riding on the backs of other people in this country. I don’t think that’s – that’s not American,” McDermott said.
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