[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6382]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    THE DEMOCRATS' HEALTH CARE BILL

  (Mr. NEUGEBAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NEUGEBAUER. Mr. Speaker, in case there's any doubt about the new 
report released by CMS this week, the report says it all. The 
Democrats' health care bill fails to provide the reform taxpayers 
deserve and expected. In fact, the report clearly states that the 
health care spending will go up by $310 billion over the next 10 years 
and that the new long-term care CLASS Program poses serious risk of 
being unsustainable.
  This is just another example of the Federal Government's creating yet 
another unsustainable program and failing to empower the American 
people. We have set ourselves up for more spending, more burdens that 
we simply cannot afford, while taking away benefits from seniors and 
disabled Americans who need them most.
  While Republicans offered positive solutions to tackle the spending, 
Democrats created a massive new government-run health care plan that 
hurts the economy, interferes with patient choices, and does nothing to 
bring down the cost of health care.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve better than that.

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