[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6380]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              THE NEW HEALTH CARE LAW FAILS ON ALL COUNTS

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, remember when we were told the whole point 
of the new health care bill was to lower health care costs and to 
insure all Americans? Well, the CMS, under the control of the Obama 
administration, estimates that the law fails on all counts.
  Twenty million Americans who currently can't afford health care will 
be forced under duress to buy a product or will face fines in IRS 
action. Four million Americans still will not be able to buy health 
insurance, and they will pay $33 billion in fines. Fourteen million 
will lose their employer-sponsored health care insurance. Twenty-three 
million Americans will still have no health care coverage in 2019. 
Twenty-one percent of the gross domestic product will be spent on 
health care after this law is implemented, which is much higher than if 
the Congress had done nothing.
  You have to wonder: When did we know all of this, and why didn't we 
know about it before the vote was taken?

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