[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19563]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  THE CURRENT DEMOCRAT HEALTH CARE BILL IS NOT THE RIGHT SOLUTION TO 
                         REFORMING HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. BARTLETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT. Mr. Speaker, health care costs are increasing at two 
and three times the rate of inflation. If this continues, it will 
obviously ultimately consume us; so we have got to do something to 
reform health care.
  But the bill making its way through the committee process can't be 
the right solution. According to economic modeling by the President's 
own chief economic adviser, the business tax hikes alone would destroy 
up to 4.7 million jobs. An independent analysis by the nonpartisan 
Lewin Group found that 114 million Americans would lose their current 
health insurance. And the CBO recently noted this health care plan 
would ``probably generate substantial increases in Federal budget 
deficits.''
  Mr. Speaker, this can't be the right solution. We can do better. We 
need to keep working. And please include Republican ideas in this work 
product.

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