[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 26704]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, as a physician with over 30 years' 
experience, I cannot state strongly enough how devastating this Pelosi 
bill is going to be for American families, businesses, and seniors.
  This 1,990-page bill has come in at a cost of $1.3 trillion by the 
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. It will create $700 billion in 
new taxes. It will cover over 6 million illegal immigrants, and as many 
as 5.5 million American workers can lose their jobs.
  The government takeover of health care proposed in the Pelosi health 
care plan could cause as many as 114 million Americans to lose their 
current coverage.
  This bill will also ring in a new level of Federal spending, creating 
levels of bureaucracy that will cost trillions of dollars in new 
Federal spending and will exacerbate the deficit and imperil the 
Nation's long-term fiscal solvency.
  And finally, cuts to Medicare Advantage plans will result in higher 
premiums and dropped coverage for more than 10 million seniors.
  In short, the Pelosi health care bill will raise taxes, provide less 
coverage for families and seniors, and cost millions of Americans their 
jobs.

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