[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 25783-25784]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, the House of Representatives 
will soon be debating a health care reform proposal on the floor of 
this Chamber. The biggest question in this proposal will be whether or 
not we should have a government-controlled health insurance option 
called the public option that is targeted to cost about $900 billion, 
half of which is on the backs of the taxpayers and small businesses of 
this country in the form of higher taxes, surcharges and fees, and the 
other half is money stripped out of the Medicare system; hundreds of 
billions of dollars stripped out of Medicare.
  When the proponents tell you that if you like the insurance that you 
have, you can keep it, they're not referring to the 10 million seniors 
who are on the Medicare Advantage Program that will be phased out. Mr. 
Speaker, it's important that the proponents of the public option be 
honest with the seniors of this country in terms of what it will do to 
them.

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