[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 107 (Thursday, July 16, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8189]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, as work begins today 
on the 1,000-page and $1 trillion health care bill, the Congressional 
Budget Office provided Members with some troubling points yesterday.
  For example, supporters of this plan argue it's necessary to bring 
down costs. We need to do that. However, the CBO admitted that the 
public plan would have essentially no impact on the long-term growth of 
health care costs, the legislation's purported goal.
  A few other issues: the $1 trillion score was not produced on the 
actual bill, but a summary provided days before the text was 
introduced. And more questions.
  What impact will the health care bill and its taxes have on job 
losses? What will the big tax increase do to small business? What is 
the cost of the government plan? And what happens if it doesn't let 
private plans play by the same rules?
  Let's make sure we don't replace the bureaucracy of insurance with 
barriers, burdens, and bureaucracy of government. Neither one is good 
medicine. Real reform is good medicine. Let's do it right. Let's take 
the time to work together as a team and solve this problem once and for 
all.

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