[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 60 (Tuesday, April 27, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2889]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  WITH AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS, IT IS TIME TO LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN 
                                 PEOPLE

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, time and again during health 
care debate, the American people were told that the health care bill 
would lower costs, and Republicans continually argued that the big 
government takeover of our health care would actually increase the cost 
to taxpayers. Well, who was right? The nonpartisan Office of the 
Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released 
its analysis of the new health care law, and the results are very 
telling, Mr. Speaker.
  The actuaries are reporting that the new law will increase health 
care costs over the next 10 years by $311 billion, which was much more 
than the original estimates to both the House and the Senate bills. 
Published reports have indicated that this report, incredibly, was 
submitted to the Secretary of Health and Human Services more than a 
week before the final vote in the House. But that information, of 
course, was not shared with--at least on the Republican side--Members 
of Congress or the American people. So much for most open and 
transparent administration in history and so much for providing the 
American people with real health care reform that would help lower 
costs.
  America is at a crossroads, Mr. Speaker, in this difficult economy. 
While the American people spoke out very loudly that they did not want 
a government health care takeover, Democrats refused to listen.

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