[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19576-19577]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 VOTE DOWN THE HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL

  (Mr. KING of Iowa asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, President Obama, in part of his 
campaign to be elected to office and part of his campaign after he had 
been inaugurated as President, said that we have an economic calamity, 
and we can't fix it unless we first fix health care, and that health 
care is broken.
  Well, if you have a business that's broken, it doesn't take a $1 
trillion to $2 trillion program to try to fix it. If the problem with 
health care is we're spending too much money on health care, why do we 
have to spend $1 trillion or $2 trillion more to fix it? I mean that is 
the number one question that doesn't seem to be answered by the 
administration.
  And the second one, a statement that is not believable to the 
American people, is the idea that when the President promises if you 
like your health insurance program, you get to keep it. In fact, if 
they pass this legislation, they will take it away, and it says in 
section 102 of the bill that they're going to take it away. The 
American people are not going to be able to decide if they get to keep 
their health insurance program because the government will write new 
rules for every health insurance program, and the employers will decide 
whether the insurance is cheaper under the public plan, the government-
run plan, or the private.

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  Vote this down.

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