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Excerpt from the interview, on Tuesday, August 25, 2009:
Congressman Shadegg: “We do not have a health insurance market in America today. Last night on television you watched three or four commercials for auto insurance. You watched no commercials for health insurance, because right now you and I as individuals can’t afford to buy health insurance. It’s tax free if our employer buys it, but not tax free if we buy it. That means we have no control over it. That means it’s not a market. That means costs, as Vic [Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR)] said, are going to keep going up and up and up. We can do some market reforms. Let me buy health insurance, let you buy health insurance on the same tax-free basis as a company, and you’ll create a market. Now also let us buy across state lines so that we’re not forced to buy from two or three companies in just one state. That’s not a real market. That’s not competition. That’s what is causing costs to go up for the 86% of Americans who have health insurance now.”
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