[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25797]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, how does Speaker Pelosi plan to pay for 
her $1.2 trillion government takeover of health care? Simple--higher 
taxes, higher premiums and cuts in Medicare. What does this mean to mom 
and dad back home? It means 6 million will be forced off of their 
Medicare Advantage Program. It means their doctor will now be assigned 
to them by a government bureaucrat, not by their own choice.
  In the rural area that I represent, they're facing $83 billion in 
cuts, so rural nursing homes will close down. And for seniors in 
Medicare part D, a 20 percent increase in drug costs.
  This is not a good plan. If the kitchen sink is leaking, you don't 
take a wrecking ball to the whole kitchen. You fix the sink. We need 
targeted, market-oriented reforms to make health care more affordable 
and more accessible for everyone, especially our seniors on a fixed 
income.

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