[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25795]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, Wisconsinites might want to know 
that just recently our Blue Cross Blue Shield program announced that 
people in their twenties under this health care bill will see a 199 
percent increase in their health insurance premiums. People in their 
forties will see a 122 percent increase in their health insurance 
premiums. People in their fifties will see a dramatic double-digit 
increase in their health insurance premiums.
  Mr. Speaker, 214,000 Wisconsinites might want to know that their 
Medicare Advantage plan that they enjoy will be either dramatically 
more expensive or will go away completely. The American taxpayer might 
want to know that government estimators are telling us that this bill 
will cost $1 trillion to $2 trillion in a new health care entitlement, 
which will surely add more deficit and debt to future generations.
  The shame of all of this, Mr. Speaker, is that we could fix what is 
broken in health care without breaking what is working in health care. 
Republicans have offered 40 different pieces of legislation in an 
attempt to get bipartisan compromise, to make sure that the uninsured 
get insured, that people with preexisting conditions get health care, 
and we do this without breaking the bank, without raising taxes and 
without creating new debt and deficit and entitlements.

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