[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 56]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         FOUR KEY HEALTH CARE MESSAGES FOR VOTERS 55 AND OLDER

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, seniors who express concern about the 
Democrat plans for a government takeover of health care in our country 
are correct to be concerned for at least four reasons:
  The Democrat health plans do not address the fundamental concern of 
lowering the cost of health care. Indeed, the Democrat plans do exactly 
the opposite by raising health care costs.
  Not only will the Democrat health care plans cause health care costs 
to go up, they will raise taxes, increase the deficit, raise premiums, 
and hurt the quality of health care that Americans receive.
  The funding mechanisms envisioned to pay the cost of Democrat health 
care will harm Medicare and devastate Medicare Advantage.
  Passing the Democrats' health care bill will harm our economy at a 
time when we need to focus on creating jobs. I urge seniors to tell 
their Democrat representatives to vote ``no'' on this job-killing, 
deficit-raising bill.

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