An unidentified speaker told the recorded session that health-care costs have become unaffordable since the Affordable Care Act, saying, "We've been talking about health care unaffordability ever since Obamacare and premiums and deductibles have doubled."

The speaker linked rising costs to government involvement, arguing that "the more intervention, the more taxes, mandates, subsidies, regulations, and health care, the more we have monopoly forces." The comment frames consolidation and regulatory policy as a cause of higher prices and reduced competition, but the transcript does not include supporting evidence or citations for that causal claim.

The speaker continued, saying the result has been harm to the health-care economy and to consumers: "we've destroyed our health care economy and . . . the consumers paying for it as is the taxpayer because it's about a third of our $7,000,000,000,000 budget." The transcript provides the numeric claim but does not specify which budget or the timeframe for the figure; the statement is presented here as the speaker reported it rather than as an independently verified fact.

The speaker closed by asserting that "health care is a big driver of our national debt." The transcript records no formal motion, vote, or staff response in the excerpt provided. No supporting documents, citations, or budgetary references were included in these segments, so the claims remain speaker assertions in the record.