Sen. Coburn: GOP Alternative Health Bill Held From Vote

Republicans wrote an alternative healthcare bill in 2009, when the Democratically led Congress drafted what would become Obamacare, but they were "never allowed" to vote on it, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn said Monday.

"Myself and [North Carolina Sen.] Richard Burr had the Patient Choice Act, which we never could get a vote on," Coburn, a Republican, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

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