[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3537]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Madam Speaker, as the vote on health insurance 
reform approaches, I've become increasingly troubled at the things that 
this bill fails to do.
  Despite claims to the contrary, the Democrat bill fails to decrease 
health care costs. We keep hearing about how people are being cost out 
of the market; they can't afford their health care, but it does not 
decrease health care costs. In fact, the bill would increase the cost 
of health care in the form of higher premiums and exorbitant new taxes 
on families. Furthermore, it will not prevent funds from going to 
illegal aliens or abortions. So that's what it doesn't do.
  What does it do? Well, this legislation will make sure the American 
people are more addicted to socialism because we will be more dependent 
on the Federal bureaucracy. What it will do is create a $1 trillion new 
program, even when we can't afford the current programs.
  Well, what we need to do is to make sure that we come up with a list 
of reforms that is a bipartisan list. The Democrats have actually 
ignored what Republicans have offered to reform the system in order to 
transform it. Well, they're transforming it by making backroom deals. 
That's not what the American people want.
  Let's come forward with what we believe in and how to make the system 
better and work together. But we have to start by voting ``no'' on this 
legislation.

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