[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1472]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. I have sent or received nearly 
750,000 letters and emails from my office and have held 225 constituent 
town hall meetings. I have a pretty good idea why my constituents are 
upset about this health care bill. They were promised that it wouldn't 
tax health care, but it does. They were promised that it wouldn't 
mandate health care, but it does. They were promised it wouldn't raise 
taxes on people with incomes less than $250,000, but it does. You can 
only pay for this by doing some manipulation of taking $52 billion from 
Social Security and $72 billion from long-term health care. And it 
doesn't pay doctors to the tune of $371 billion. It doesn't allow 
doctors to volunteer at community health centers. It doesn't reduce 
infection rates at hospitals. And it doesn't deal with the $700 billion 
of waste in health care that we've got to address.
  You don't reform health care by demonizing insurance companies, drug 
companies and doctors. And Americans are saying we've got to reform 
health care, not just continue to pass bills that are facades to real 
health reform.
  And that's why they're mad as hell.

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