[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25790]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. POSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POSEY. Mr. Speaker, 57 percent of Americans believe the 
majority's health care plan will raise their health care costs. Only 18 
percent believe it lowers costs. Fewer than 1 in 4 Americans believe 
this plan will improve the quality of health care in America. And 
according to the Rasmussen poll out yesterday, this is a fact.
  So what is Washington's response? To press on. The omnipresent 
defenders of the nonexistent problems of 80 percent of Americans are 
crafting another plan, in secret, one they haven't even read yet.
  The American people have given this plan a vote of no confidence. 
Given the hundreds of billions of dollars in budget shortfalls for 
health plans Washington already runs--Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP--is it 
any wonder the American people don't believe what they are being told 
about this?
  It is time to go back to the drawing board, and we on this side of 
the aisle stand ready, willing, and able to work with you in a 
bipartisan fashion for the best interests of the people of this great 
country.

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