[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Madam Speaker, the Democrat claims that the Obama health 
care bill will reduce the debt and help balance the budget, but 
reviewing those calculations shows that they're going to collect higher 
taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only 6 years. Imagine 
that.
  Isn't that a little misleading? Four years of health care taxes with 
no health care.
  Imagine if you wanted to buy a house and you had to make 4 years of 
payments before you could move in, and then finally when you moved in, 
you found out you had rationed use of the property. You couldn't choose 
where to park your car, like in the garage. You had to drive blocks 
away down to a public parking lot and then wait in line for a stall.
  Ten years of taxes, 6 years of benefits, followed by rationed care. 
You wouldn't buy a house under those terms, and Congress shouldn't pass 
a health care bill under those terms either.
  We can do better. We can have health care reform that lowers costs by 
addressing preexisting conditions, by lowering defensive medicine 
costs, by having commonsense tort reform.
  The Republican alternative lowers the price of health care by 10 
percent, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That's what this 
Congress ought to pass.
  I deem back the balance of my time.

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