[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 36 (Friday, March 12, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1362]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 HEALTH CARE COSTS IN A DISMAL ECONOMY

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, this week it was 
announced that the unemployment rate in my home State reached a tragic 
new high of 12.6 percent. Statewide, 172,400 people have lost their 
jobs since the end of 2007.
  In this crisis, the administration has irresponsibly announced that 
March 18 is their deadline to pass a job-killing health care takeover 
that imposes 100 new mandates on private individuals and businesses; 
includes billions of dollars in new taxes, and trillions in new 
government spending, squeezing Medicare; forces employers to cancel 
health care coverage, and forces people into a government-run health 
care plan.
  More taxes, borrowing, and spending is not the way to reform health 
care in America. NFIB warns 1.6 million jobs will be killed. We should 
first consider job-creation policies, and then work on a step-by-step 
approach to lowering health care costs.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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