[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1459]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. SCHOCK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SCHOCK. Madam Speaker, this bill really is not about health 
insurance reform. If you watched the President's televised health care 
forum, you heard them say it time and time again: this is about 
entitlement expansion. And that is really where the real debate comes 
down this center line. Both sides agree that there needs to be heath 
care reform. Republicans have put forward a thoughtful bill since last 
April promoting reform, competition across State lines, covering people 
with preexisting conditions, on and on and on.
  But how can my friends on the other side of the aisle endorse this 
bill when the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan determiner 
of how much these bills cost us, has not come out with their cost 
estimate for this bill? I know from my home State of Illinois, our 
Governor is talking about a 50 percent tax increase to pay for $9 
billion in unpaid Medicaid bills. This bill we do know will cost my 
State of Illinois $1.89 billion over 5 years just for their match. I 
don't know how anyone from my State can support this bill.

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