[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24694]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   HEALTH CARE BILLS ARE FRIGHTENING

  (Mr. GINGREY of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. Madam Speaker, we currently have Democratic 
health care reform bills under consideration. Surveyed together, our 
options are frightening. H.R. 3200 adds $239 billion to the deficit, it 
opens the door for illegal aliens to get benefits, and it could move up 
to a hundred million Americans off of their current health care plan 
and onto the government-run option.
  The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee bill 
forces a government takeover of our Nation's health care system and 
allows the government to sell products that all Americans must buy. The 
Senate Finance Committee bill cuts over $400 billion from the health 
benefits of our seniors. It increases the average insurance premium for 
American families by $4,000, and it still leaves 2.5 million Americans 
uninsured even with its $1.8 trillion expenditure.
  As bad as these bills are, what they will become once Harry Reid, 
Nancy Pelosi and their liberal allies in the Senate take them behind 
closed doors to craft a final product will be much, much worse. 
Personally, the last people I want deciding my family's health care are 
Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid.

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