[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 19666]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          THE OBAMA-PELOSI GOVERNMENT HIJACKING OF HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, the more we learn about the Obama-Pelosi 
government hijacking of health care, the more we recognize how terrible 
the plan is. Let me point out just a few things that we've recently 
learned about the Democrat bill.
  First and foremost, the Democrat bill creates a government-run health 
care plan that will ration care, that will remove choice and that will 
decrease the quality of health care for Americans. The bill imposes not 
only an employer mandate on health benefits, but it also creates a 
fleet of government auditors who will sail in to inspect every employer 
in the Nation to assess the health benefits they offer to a standard 
even the Democrats admit they haven't ascertained yet.
  Individuals and employers will be taxed to pay for the public plan, 
and an independent commissioner, not accountable to anyone, will set 
the reimbursement rate for health care providers and will have power 
over what will and will not be covered.
  Everyone over age 65 will be required to have an end-of-life 
consultation with their physicians and to assess that plan every 5 
years. Democrats don't know why any Member of Congress would read a 
bill that's over 1,000 pages. Now we are learning why--apparently 
because they don't want us to know or the American people to know what 
the health care plan holds.

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