[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3484]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, we are coming up, in 2 short weeks' time, 
on the 1-year anniversary of the passage of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act, affectionately known as ObamaCare.
  Mr. Speaker, what has that year wrought? Many of us will remember the 
Speaker of the House a year ago, Speaker Pelosi, saying, We have to 
pass this bill so we can understand what's in it.
  Well, it's been a year. Do we understand what's in it? The answer is 
we do, and people don't like what they see.
  What about the oft repeated claim ``If you like what you have, you 
can keep it''? It turns out that is incorrect. What about the waivers 
that have been issued since October? Now well over a thousand waivers 
have been issued by HHS. Why have those waivers been issued? They have 
been issued because this policy doesn't work. And worse than not 
working, it costs a ton of money.
  Mr. Pitts just mentioned that in February the deficit in this country 
was $223 billion for 1 month, the shortest month of the year. This is 
as good as it is going to get. What happens when you have those 
subsidies in the exchanges that subsidize middle class purchase of 
health insurance in this country for the first time? That's a high 
pressure tap into the Federal Treasury. It's really wrong and it has to 
stop.

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