Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY), a physician, on Wednesday said the Democrats’ refusal to address the rampant waste, fraud, and abuse that comes with the Obamacare subsidies is “insulting” to the American taxpayer.

Barrasso took to the Senate floor to respond to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) contention that the Senate Republican plan for healthcare, informally known as the Crapo-Cassidy plan, is “insulting.”

The Wyoming conservative argued that what is truly insulting is “that the Minority Leader and the Democrats want to send $83 billion of taxpayer money directly from the Treasury of the United States to health insurance corporations who’ve continued to get rich off of Obamacare. That is insulting to the American people.”

He continued, “That is a program th

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