[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1451]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. COFFMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COFFMAN. Madam Speaker, my Democratic colleagues continue to tout 
claims that this health care bill is ``completely paid for'' and ``will 
bring down the deficit.'' But those claims are patently false. The 
accounting assumptions Democrats have given the Congressional Budget 
Office to score this bill are nothing short of an Enron-style gimmick. 
Just look at the most glaring example. The bill counts 10 years of tax 
increases, amounting to nearly half a trillion dollars, and 10 years of 
Medicare cuts, also a half a trillion dollars, but it only counts for 6 
years of spending.
  So what is the real cost of this bill? What does it cost when you 
compare 10 years of spending with 10 years of taxes and Medicare cuts? 
$2.3 trillion. That's nowhere near budget neutral and will drive the 
deficit up much higher than it already is. Let us defeat this bill.

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