[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19570]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          REPUBLICANS HAVE A POSITIVE HEALTH CARE ALTERNATIVE

  (Mrs. BACHMANN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BACHMANN. Mr. Speaker, this weekend I had the occasion to speak 
with a businessman in Minnesota who employs 110 people in his business. 
And he told me, Michele, right now health care is the most expensive 
part of my business, and under President Obama's plan, it will cost me 
an additional $12,000 a month and I just don't have that money. We know 
that the President's own figures say that about 5 million jobs will be 
lost in this country if his bill goes through.
  There are so many small businesses, Mr. Speaker, who would love to 
offer health care, but it is the Congress that has made it so expensive 
for small businesses to offer health care.
  Jobs will be created, but this is where they're going to be created, 
in government bureaucracy. This is the picture of the bureaucracy that 
the Democrats will create if we get government takeover of health care. 
And remember, the American consumer stands on this side of the 
bureaucracy, the doctor stands on this side. This is like America's 
newest board game. You have to navigate all of these agencies to get to 
the goal of your doctor and your health care. We can do better. The 
Republicans have a positive alternative.

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