[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11053]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        REPEAL OF OBAMACARE ACT

  (Mr. BENISHEK asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BENISHEK. Madam Speaker, in upholding the President's health care 
law, the Supreme Court identified the law as a $675 billion tax 
increase on America's working families and reminds us that we cannot 
depend on courts to fix the mistakes that Congress has made.
  I know something about health care. I've been a doctor for 30 years 
taking care of patients in northern Michigan. I know the President's 
plan is not solving our health care problems. In fact, it's making them 
worse.
  The law hurts seniors by cutting more than $500 billion from 
Medicare. The law creates a board of 15 Washington bureaucrats to 
decide how to reduce Medicare costs. The law contains more than 13,000 
pages of new regulations that will suffocate our small businesses.
  The President's law never addressed rising health care costs. America 
has a great health care system, but the problem is it costs too much. I 
recommend we enact a step-by-step approach that lowers cost through 
free market competition and strengthens the doctor-patient 
relationship.
  The American people have been clear--they don't like this terrible 
law. I urge all Members to support the Repeal of Obamacare Act, so we 
can scrap this law and work together on real health care reforms that 
actually lower costs and make health care more affordable.

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