[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. REHBERG. This Saturday, as Americans celebrate Halloween, we 
should learn a valuable lesson from the frightening results Dr. 
Frankenstein's medical experimentation had.
  Today, Congress is debating its own dangerous health care experiment. 
Stitched together in hidden laboratories from parts of at least five 
different bills and countless special interests, the final health care 
monster will ultimately hurt American seniors.
  In Montana alone, more than 26,000 seniors choose to use Medicare 
Advantage. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office warns of $162 
billion in cuts to this popular program. Those will hurt those Montana 
seniors. Worse, this plan will increase the cost of prescription drug 
premiums for seniors by 20 percent over the next 10 years.
  When it comes to America's health care system, the stakes are too 
high for reckless legislative experimentation. No one will remember how 
the monster was made, but they will remember the damage it did.

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