[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18486]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    HEALTH CARE REFORM AT WHAT COST

  (Mr. ALEXANDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, several of my colleagues have come to 
this mike today and said, Where are the jobs? Well, if we pass this 
government-run health plan with compulsory insurance, it's going to 
create some jobs. It's going to take a government police force that you 
won't believe. We're going to have Barney Fifes running all over this 
Nation forcing people to do things they don't want to do.
  And how do we pay for it? Well, that's simple. We just go to the 
small businesses that can't afford to buy insurance for their employees 
as it is and we increase by 8 percent their payroll taxes. We are going 
to break the backs of small businesses that are the backbone of this 
Nation.
  Let's put a stop to this nonsense.

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