[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (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, this whole health care debate started 
out clear back during the Obama-Hillary debate during the Presidential 
campaign.
  President Obama has come to two premises: One is we spend too much 
money on health care. The proposed solution from Democrats? Spend a lot 
more, $1 to $2 trillion more.
  The second premise: That too many are uninsured, 47 million or, as we 
just heard, 39 million. When you subtract from 47 million illegal 
aliens and immigrants and those who qualify under their employer and 
those who make over $75,000 a year and those who qualify for government 
programs, you're down to 12.1 million, not 47. That's less than 4 
percent of the population.
  They seek to overhaul 100 percent of the health insurance industry in 
America and 100 percent of the health care delivery system in America 
to do what? To reduce that number of uninsured from 4 percent down to 
something like perhaps 2 and, in the process, put in place the 
framework for socialized medicine.
  Additionally, they give us an opt-out. Well, here's what I'll opt out 
of: I'll opt out of funding abortions. I'll opt out of funding 
illegals. I'll opt out of lawsuit abuse, tax increases, and Medicare 
cuts.

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