[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26531]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 DOING HEALTH CARE REFORM THE RIGHT WAY

  (Mrs. MYRICK asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, when I am at home in the district, I am not 
getting questions about health care. I am getting questions about jobs. 
People are saying, what are you doing to help create jobs?
  Unemployment nationally is at a 26-year high. In my district, it is 
between 11 and 15 percent, and small business people say to me all the 
time, new taxes on businesses that can't afford health coverage is not 
going to help. We all know that leads to fewer jobs and lower wages for 
workers.
  Health care reform is important, but the country can't afford it 
under the proposed bill. Half of the tax dollars collected by the 
health care bill's new surtax are from small business. It is terrible 
for innovation and kills ingenuity, which made America great.
  It is the American people that keep this country growing, and they 
want health reform done the right way, that lowers cost and is 
affordable.

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