[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17232]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       DEMOCRAT HEALTH CARE BILL

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, as both the House and Senate Democrats 
attempt to pass a multitrillion-dollar government-run health care bill, 
there are some facts that have come out that we can now all see.
  These three facts are now evident about the House Democrat 
legislation:
  First, the bill will force 114 million Americans out of their current 
health care coverage into a new government-controlled health care plan;
  Second, the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office states that the 
bill will cost the American taxpayers $1.5 trillion;
  And third, 29 million Americans will still remain uninsured if this 
disastrous piece of legislation becomes law.
  But 83 percent of Americans like the insurance they now have. Yes, we 
must reform the system to include those without insurance, but we must 
not throw out what is working.
  The American people need real reforms, not government-run medicine.

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