[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 28965]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 DISPELLING HEALTH CARE MISINFORMATION

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. I need to dispel some of the misinformation that's been 
put out about the health care bill that we passed in this House. For 
one thing, some have said, Well, States require you to have insurance 
on your car, so of course we can mandate that people buy health 
insurance. The bill we passed is not going to provide health insurance. 
It's going to mandate--it does mandate--that you buy it, and if you 
don't, if you're above the poverty line, it won't be provided. In fact, 
you have an extra income tax if you don't buy the Cadillac insurance 
the government mandates.
  If you want to know about the comparison, first of all, to States 
requiring car insurance, not one single State in the country requires 
that a car--your own car--be insured. They require that you buy 
insurance to ensure against hurting another car or damaging another 
car. This is a whole different thing. We're mandating that you buy 
insurance on your own car, your own vehicle, your own body. And that's 
not constitutional.

                          ____________________