[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15925]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SEBELIUS BULLYING

  (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, Secretary of Health and Human Services 
Sebelius seemed shocked to find that placing new mandates on health 
insurers leads to increased costs.
  After press reports last week indicated that insurers are raising 
premiums because of ObamaCare, the Secretary wrote a letter to the 
health insurance association which is nothing more than bullying. The 
Secretary called the measures onto the carpet, insisting that there 
would be ``zero tolerance for misinformation and unjustified rate 
increases.''
  Why are these rate increases unjustified? Because government 
bureaucrats thought that all the new rules and mandates would only lead 
to increases of 1 or 2 percent. Now insurers functioning in the real 
world are increasing premiums by up to 9 percent.
  Bullying and threats aren't going to make ObamaCare work. This 
unprecedented expansion of government power is only making health care 
more expensive.
  The solution is to repeal this law and replace it with real market-
based reforms that take power away from unelected government 
bureaucrats.

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