[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 72 (Tuesday, May 12, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H5448]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            WAKE UP, AMERICA

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Yesterday, health care executives indicated to the 
White House that they were going to slow the rate of growth over a 
period of 10 years, thereby saving $2 trillion. Wake up, America. You 
have to look at the underlying numbers here.
  What it means is that their share of revenue for our health care 
spending is going to rise to $12.8 trillion by 2020. At 1.5 percent, 
slowing the rate of growth times 10 years--15 percent. You multiply 
that times your $12.8 trillion, you get about $2 trillion.
  This is a hoax. It is a swindle. They're trying to tell the American 
people that these insurance companies that make money--not providing 
health care--are suddenly going to give the American people a break, 
when in fact the rate at which we're going to be paying is going to be 
35 percent more than it is now.
  Wake up, America. The only plan that we can have that can work is 
universal, single-payer, not-for-profit health care. Break the chains, 
the shackles that these insurance companies have on our political 
process.

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