[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 24, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2266]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HEALTH BILL IS BAD MEDICINE

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, our colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle have voted for a bill that is a government takeover of the health 
care system of this country. They talk about all of the good things 
that they see in the bill that Republicans want to repeal. Republicans 
want to replace the bad parts of this bill with good things.
  The main message of this bill is that it is going to tax us for 10 
years for benefits for 6 years. The tax increases begin immediately, 
the benefits in most cases don't begin for 4 more years, and that is 
not good news for the American people. We need to put the people in 
charge of their own health care. We do not need government bureaucrats 
making decisions for us. This is a bad bill. It is bad medicine for the 
United States. It is bad medicine for our people, and we are going to 
do everything we can to replace the bad aspects of the bill with good 
things.

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