[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3520]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Madam Speaker, my Democratic colleagues 
continue to tout claims that this health care bill is ``completely paid 
for'' and ``will bring down the deficit.'' But those claims are 
patently false. The accounting assumptions Democrats have given the 
Congressional Budget Office to score this bill are nothing short of an 
Enron-style gimmick. Just look at the most glaring example. The bill 
counts 10 years of tax increases, amounting to nearly half a trillion 
dollars, and 10 years of Medicare cuts, also a half a trillion dollars, 
but it only counts for 6 years of spending.
  So what is the real cost of this bill? What does it cost when you 
compare 10 years of spending with 10 years of taxes and Medicare cuts? 
$2.3 trillion. That's nowhere near budget neutral and will drive the 
deficit up much higher than it already is. Let us defeat this bill.

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