[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27824]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               CMS REPORT

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, just a week after the House passed Speaker 
Pelosi's health care reform bill, we've received a report from the 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services showing what this bill will 
do to health care in America. If this bill were to become law, health 
care costs would increase by $289 billion over the next 10 years. 
Rising costs are devastating families and businesses, but this 
trillion-dollar health care bill does nothing to stem the flood.
  The same CMS report shows that proposed cuts to Medicare would reduce 
benefits for seniors. The $571 billion in cuts could cause many doctors 
and hospitals to stop taking Medicare patients, leading to lines for 
service and degraded care. Further cuts to the program mean a greater 
burden on private insurance, a higher rate for businesses and 
individuals, higher costs, more government control, more taxes, and 
less competition.
  Here we have more evidence that Speaker Pelosi's bill is the wrong 
kind of health care reform.

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