[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. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Madam Speaker, my colleagues, the American people, and I 
think myself would like to see health care reform. There is a lot of 
room for improvement. There are a lot of people that don't have 
coverage or access to affordable health care.
  Most of the people I talk to want their premiums down if they do have 
insurance. If you talk to Americans, what do they want now? They want 
jobs, and they want the economy expanded so people can even get their 
own health care. What they also want is a bipartisan effort on behalf 
of Congress to get these things done.
  Instead, what they've got in all of the proposals before us is a 
proposal to cut Medicare and to dramatically increase taxes. What they 
wanted was some transparency in this process and openness. Instead, 
they are getting a closed-door deal and a back-door deal that is not 
transparent, not open to bipartisanship, imposes taxes on all Americans 
and, in fact, cuts Medicare for our poorest and oldest citizens. They 
just don't get it.

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