[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27731]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  COSTS SOAR IN PELOSI'S TAKEOVER BILL

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, the nonpartisan, 
independent experts at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 
CMS, released their analysis of the Pelosi takeover. I would like to 
say it was shocking, but I already had my suspicions that the 
government takeover of health care was going to cost much more than 
claimed. The independent report this weekend exposes the truth and the 
real cost.
  The report shows that the Pelosi takeover will increase health care 
costs by $289 billion. This discredits all the assertions we have heard 
about how a 2,000-page bill, the $1.3 trillion health care bill, will 
somehow lower costs. This health care takeover will violate this 
administration's promise to ``bend the cost curve.'' It will add more 
than a dime to the deficit and kill jobs.
  There are better alternatives that Congress should consider, like 
H.R. 3400, that will lower health care costs for families and small 
businesses while creating jobs.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism. Mass murderers 
should be tried at Guantanamo Bay, not in New York City.

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