[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6389-6390]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          HEALTH CARE TAKEOVER

  (Mr. MARCHANT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MARCHANT. Mr. Speaker, this radically Republican Texan rises 
today to highlight the CMS analysis for the government takeover of our 
health care system. As many have predicted, CMS concluded that the new 
law fails to contain cost increases in health care. CMS projects health 
care spending will rise to 21 percent of the GDP in the next decade. 
This places our country on an unacceptable path and getting less 
coverage for our money.
  Even more alarming, CMS concluded that 50 percent of our Medicare 
Advantage patients will lose their coverage over the next decade when 
the law is

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fully implemented. Thousands of seniors in my district depend on 
Medicare Advantage. We need to repeal and replace this now. We need a 
new bill that will control health care costs while still allowing 
patients to keep the coverage that they have now and as they were 
promised.

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