[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6383]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        HEALTH CARE BILL'S COSTS

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, each day I am more convinced that I was right 
to oppose the health care reform bill that was pushed through this 
Congress last month.
  All along Republicans questioned how it's possible to increase 
Medicaid enrollees and cut costs at the same time. And lo and behold, 
we were right. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, 
recently concluded that implementing this bill means health care will 
be 21 percent of our GDP in 2019, up from 16 percent today. Taxpayers 
will be forced to spend $410 billion to expand Medicaid to 20 million 
new beneficiaries, and that's only at the Federal level. That doesn't 
count the State level spending, in which my home State of Texas has 
been estimated to incur a $24 billion unfunded mandate over 10 years.
  Mr. Speaker, there's a better way to provide access to quality, 
affordable health care for all Americans. We should repeal and replace 
the bloated government plan with one that makes sense. The American 
people deserve no less.

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