[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 15, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H738]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. CANSECO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CANSECO. Madam Speaker, when the Democrats passed the 
unconstitutional government takeover of health care, they cleverly 
front-loaded some of the provisions but left the most troubling 
mandates and requirements to be implemented at a later date.
  Recently, the Obama administration released its controversial 
contraception mandate, and Americans got a glance of the looming 
disaster that the health care law will produce once it actually goes 
fully into effect. This mandate is one of the first prescribed by the 
Democrats' government health care takeover, but it will not be the 
last. Unfortunately, the HHS ruling that ignores religious freedom is 
just one example of the many disastrous provisions of a top-down, 
government-controlled health care system.
  If Americans did not like this provision, they certainly won't like 
the IPAB, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a group of 15 
unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who will control virtually every 
health care decision.
  I urge my colleagues to support commonsense legislation that will 
protect the rights of all human life, including the unborn, and to 
continue working to fully repeal the Democrats' government health care 
takeover as a whole, as well as the harmful individual provisions that 
violate our constitutional rights.

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