State Health Care Premium Reduction Act

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Mrs. MILLER. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 1425, which should be called the expanding government and killing cures act.

With this legislation, my colleagues across the aisle are bending American healthcare to the will of Washington bureaucrats.

Any way you look at this, House Democrats took a bipartisan issue, improving healthcare and lowering prices, and botched it. We are now left with bad policy that will stifle innovation for new treatments and therapeutics and do what government does worst: pick winners and losers in the private sector.

This absolutely will not fix ObamaCare's failed policies. This bill gives billions in taxpayer-funded bailouts and subsidies, while doing nothing to streamline services, lower costs, or cut taxes.

Today, House Democrats are wasting everyone's time pushing a bill with price controls, punitive taxes, blank checks, bailouts, and more red tape and bureaucracy.

I want a bill that protects preexisting conditions, lowers drug pricing, incentivizes innovation, fixes our healthcare system, cuts taxes, and actually lets you keep your own doctor--but this is not it.

For these reasons, I urge my colleagues to oppose this legislation so we can get to work and actually pass a bill that improves the lives of our citizens.

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