[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 39 (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1564]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Moran) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. MORAN of Kansas. In order to achieve real health care reform, the 
kind of change that would relieve Kansas families and business owners 
from facing drastic increases in their health insurance premium costs, 
we must do something to reduce health care costs. If we fail to affect 
cost, then reform efforts, whatever they may be, will fail because 
costs simply get shifted and always roll downhill to the patient. This 
is one of the many reasons I'm so adamantly opposed to the Democrat 
health care plan.
  You may hear that the health care legislation we apparently are going 
to vote on this week will reduce costs. But the accounting data shows 
just the opposite. The facts are the facts. Democrats count billions in 
tax revenues to pay for their plan's new programs, but then they assign 
those same revenues to preserve Medicare and Social Security. They are 
double counting. When all the budgetary gimmicks are removed, we see 
this bill for what it is, a trillion dollar budget breaker that we 
cannot afford and that won't improve everyday Americans' access to 
affordable health care. It's the worst of both worlds: Breaking the 
bank, breaking the Treasury and not controlling health care costs.

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