[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26539]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. DENT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DENT. Mr. Speaker, everyone in America understands the need for 
health care reform, and so do I. Unfortunately, the new $1.2 trillion, 
2,000- page bill, H.R. 3962, still cuts Medicare by one-half trillion 
dollars to our seniors and creates a new entitlement program.
  The bill provides disincentives to States and punishes them if they 
impose caps on noneconomic damages or limits contingency fees to trial 
lawyers in medical liability cases. This takes us backwards, not 
forwards.
  There is a job-crushing employer mandate and tax increases on small 
businesses in the form of surtaxes on income. This is a job killer, 
make no mistake.
  There is a medical device tax that punishes innovation and imperils 
manufacturing jobs at companies like B. Braun and Olympus in my 
congressional district. In fact, many of them refer to this tax as the 
death tax. When is enough enough?

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