Joe Barton on Health Care Bill: There’s a ‘Probability’ This Will Be Better than ObamaCare Mandates

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BARTON: "There is a probability that this will be better than all the mandates that we had under ObamaCare. We know that ObamaCare is and was a failure. And again, if Mrs. Clinton had won, we would be having the same debate, except the Democrats would be pushing for more government intervention. Almost as many people paid the penalty so that they didn’t have to go into ObamaCare as they actually went into it. About 19 million people chose to pay IRS up to $2,000 a year so they didn’t have to comply with the individual mandate. That individual mandate did not work. And if you hadn’t had bought off the states by paying 100 percent of the cost of the premiums for healthy adults, you wouldn’t have had the so-called expansion of coverage that the Democrats crow about. That was a bribe to the states to expand Medicaid to healthy adults."