[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8437]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          OBAMACARE PROPAGANDA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Arizona (Mr. Quayle) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. QUAYLE. Mr. Speaker, at a time of record-breaking debt and 
deficits--or really anytime for that matter--it boggles the mind that 
the Obama administration would spend $20 million of taxpayer money to 
pay for propaganda on behalf of ObamaCare. Yet that has happened. Mr. 
Speaker, I have seen these commercials that attempt to explain the 
supposed benefits of ObamaCare, but they are just poorly conceived 
campaign ads.
  It's bad enough that American taxpayers are on the hook for this 
massively expensive boondoggle which does nothing to solve the 
underlying problems in our health care system. It's bad enough that 
many Americans are losing their health care coverage because of this 
bill, and that the bill is causing more and more doctors to drop 
Medicare patients. It's bad enough that Americans will see their tax 
bill go up because of ObamaCare. Now the Obama administration expects 
the American people to pay for ads touting the law that did these 
things.
  Rarely does a day go by where we don't hear of a new negative effect 
of this disastrous legislation. This week, we learned that many 
students are seeing their university-based or individual health care 
premiums rise dramatically. Some colleges have either dropped their 
student health plans entirely or are planning to do so as ObamaCare 
mandates kick in that force students to purchase health plans that in 
most cases go far beyond what is necessary.
  Then yesterday, we saw an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by Steven 
Greer, who was involved in a grant approval process for an ObamaCare 
program. Through this op-ed, we got yet another dismal view into the 
twisted bureaucracy that is implementing this disastrous legislation. 
Mr. Greer recounts one case in which a $1.9 million grant was given to 
George Washington University for a program which is expected to produce 
merely $1.7 million in health care savings.
  Mr. Speaker, even before full implementation, ObamaCare has been a 
costly disaster for the American people. This arrogant, taxpayer-funded 
propaganda campaign just adds insult to injury. And like ObamaCare, the 
ad campaign should end immediately.

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