Doctors' Hour
DOCTORS HOUR -- (House of Representatives - July 30, 2009)
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Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Well, I thank y'all. I appreciate y'all doing this tonight, and I appreciate your yielding me some time. I think the American people need to know several things about this, and y'all have brought up some very good points.
The CBO says that this ObamaCare plan is not going to save money. It says that, in 10 years, we're still going to have almost 20 million people in this country who won't have health insurance. They need to understand that illegal aliens are going to be given free health insurance by the Federal Government.
Now, last night I was watching C-SPAN, and one of our Democratic colleagues was just railing on about how illegal aliens will not get ObamaCare.
The reality is, in the Energy and Commerce Committee, just today, this morning, one of my Georgian colleagues introduced an amendment to the bill that basically said that you have to look at people's citizenships and confirm whether they're U.S. citizens or not. That was defeated almost on a party-line vote. All of the Republicans voted for the amendment. Most all of the Democrats did not. I think there were one or two who voted with my Republican colleague from Georgia. The amendment was to just affirm that somebody was here legally to get free health insurance. We saw that with SCHIP.
When I first came up here during the last Congress, we had numerous debates about SCHIP, and we had fights over giving State Child Health Insurance Programs to illegal aliens. Our Democratic colleagues absolutely fought and won the fight on this issue. People who come are going to be asked a question, Are you an illegal alien? When they say, No, I am not an illegal alien, then they're not going to do anything to check the legality or the truth of that statement. So it's a self-determination by the applicants as to whether they're legal or not. If they say they're not illegal, then they're going to be given free health insurance under this government plan.
The other thing that, I think, is extremely important for the American people to understand is that this plan is going to cost American workers a tremendous salary decrease. Plus, it is going to put a lot of American workers out of work. In fact, it has been projected that over 100 million people are going to be forced off of their private insurance. Also, as Dr. ROE was just talking about, it happened in the TennCare.
So I've heard a figure of 114 million people who have private insurance today who are going to be forced off their private insurance plans onto this so-called ``public option.'' Well, how does that work?
Well, I have businesses in my own district in northeast Georgia that have told me, businessmen and -women, that they'd rather pay the 8 percent tax, the pay-or-play tax. It would cost them less to pay the extra tax and then put their folks, whose insurance they're paying for today, over on the government plan, the socialized medicine/government plan.
I saw a video today of BARNEY FRANK, who was questioned about the government option. He said in this video, in his own words, that this is the way to get everybody in this country on a single-payer system. So, as to the claim that our Democratic colleagues put forth, which is, if you have private insurance you can keep it but if you don't then we'll give you a public option, is not factual.
They're setting up the game such, as BARNEY FRANK just very blatantly said in this video today--and I think it's on YouTube, and you can go look at it--that this government option is the means to get everybody on one single-payer system provided by the Federal Government, socialized medicine.
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