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Health Care

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 6, 2009
Location: Washington D.C.
Issues: Health and Health Care

Health Care

Mr. McKEON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to Speaker Pelosi's 2,032, and growing, page health care bill.

Today we are at the highest unemployment level since 1983. The American people can't afford these massive new spending increases, and I refuse to pass them on to my children and grandchildren.

This legislation will immediately increase taxes on American families and small businesses by $729 billion. The total bill will cost over a trillion dollars over the next decade, with money we don't have.

And what do the American people get for all this new spending? A bill that you pay for now but doesn't give coverage for 4 years.

Republicans have real solutions for improving access and affordability for American health care. We support tort reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. We support allowing negotiating across State lines and group purchasing power. We support choice of coverage without the government's forcing people into government-run health care.

Oppose the Pelosi health care bill.


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