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"If everybody had a brand new Cadillac in the driveway that'd be great but if you can't afford to put gasoline in the tank, it doesn't do you a whole lot of good. It just sits there."

Representative Mike Johnson described the state of America's health care at Thursday's town hall meeting in Leesville. Johnson said while Obamacare has had some benefit, it's also been detrimental, listing a couple statistics. He said just this year, 83 insurance companies have left the Obamacare marketplace, adding that 41 percent of counties in the U.S. have one insurance provider left. Johnson says the 'doomsday' scenario is that come January, 50 counties in the U.S. will have no insurance providers. He says the solution is to reintroduce free market principals into the insurance market.

"So that these insurers don't pull out, take their marbles and go home. That doesn't benefit anybody," he explained. "We got to keep them in the marketplace so that consumers have more choices and we can pick a health care plan that works for us and our family, not some plan that's dictated by bureaucrats in Washington. They don't know what I need."

Representative Mike Johnson described the state of America's health care at Thursday's town hall meeting in Leesville. Johnson said while Obamacare has had some benefit, it's also been detrimental, listing a couple statistics. He said just this year, 83 insurance companies have left the Obamacare marketplace, adding that 41 percent of counties in the U.S. have one insurance provider left. Johnson says the 'doomsday' scenario is that come January, 50 counties in the U.S. will have no insurance providers. He says the solution is to reintroduce free market principals into the insurance market.

"So that these insurers don't pull out, take their marbles and go home. That doesn't benefit anybody," he explained. "We got to keep them in the marketplace so that consumers have more choices and we can pick a health care plan that works for us and our family, not some plan that's dictated by bureaucrats in Washington. They don't know what I need."