[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25794]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, right now, while the Democrats who are 
running Congress are meeting behind closed doors to rewrite a 
government takeover of health care, the American people are asking why 
are they being left out?
  Senior citizens know that they are being left out of this health care 
bill because they are looking at the $400 billion in cuts to Medicare 
that President Obama and Speaker Pelosi's bill will impose upon them, 
including almost the elimination of Medicare Advantage, which is a 
program that over 100,000 in Louisiana want and like and will be denied 
under their bill.
  Small businesses and families are wondering why they are being left 
out of these discussions when they look at over $800 billion in new 
taxes that American families will have to pay, many of which make below 
$70,000, which violates one of the President's pledges.
  What the American people want is real health care reform, and that is 
why we have brought a number of bills, including H.R. 3400, which 
actually goes in and addresses the problems, like preexisting 
conditions, addressing those problems like lowering the cost so that 
people can have portability and buy across State lines, and actually 
passing real Medicare liability reform to lower the cost of health 
care.
  Let's fix the problems that are broken, not break what is working.

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