[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18485]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      BRING HEALTH CARE COSTS DOWN

  (Mr. HERGER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HERGER. Mr. Speaker, rising health care costs are a serious 
problem, but the Democrat bill being advanced in the House proposes 
$1.2 trillion in additional spending on health care coupled with 
massive tax increases that would hurt small business and middle class 
families.
  The Democrat new 8 percent payroll tax will force employers to cut 
millions more jobs in the middle of the worst recession in decades 
while their surtax would push my State of California's top income tax 
rate to over 56 percent, higher than even that of France's. And those 
tax hikes won't even cover the full costs of this bill.
  Mr. Speaker, we need real reform that brings down health care costs 
instead of pouring more money into a broken system.

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