[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26548]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, if I were talking to America, I 
would say, This is Nancy Pelosi's answer to health care. It's going to 
cost $2.25 million per word, and we don't even have the manager's 
amendment yet, which is probably going to add another 600 or 700 pages 
to this. This is going to cut Medicare and Medicare Advantage by about, 
oh, $460 or $470 billion. Seniors are really going to feel it. It's 
going to end up rationing health care, maybe for everybody, but 
certainly for seniors. The taxes are going to go through the roof, and 
nobody's read this turkey. Nobody. They'll tell you they have. We've 
got a reading room right now; we're going to go through it. But even 
when we read this, we still don't have the manager's amendment.
  We don't need this rush to judgment. We need to get it right. We need 
to take our time and get a real bill that's going to help the American 
people, not something that's going to cost an arm and a leg.

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