[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11054]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE WRONG PRESCRIPTION

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Madam Speaker, we've long known that President 
Obama's takeover of our health care is bad medicine. And now that the 
Supreme Court has determined that it's one of the largest tax increases 
in American history, we've confirmed that it's bad policy.
  As I travel up and down the Ohio River, I hear repeatedly that this 
disastrous law must be repealed and replaced with commonsense, patient-
centered solutions that will grow our economy.
  Today, the House will vote, once again, to repeal this law because 
it's full of broken promises covered up in empty political rhetoric.
  President Obama promised us that this law would lower health care 
costs, but now we know it will cost more than double what was expected, 
almost $2 trillion.
  We were promised that the law would create jobs, but 40 percent of 
American businesses tell a different story.
  And finally, we were promised that we'd be able to keep our doctors, 
but a recent survey says that 83 percent of doctors have considered 
quitting over the law.
  Free market and patient-centered solutions are not only good 
policies, but they are also the correct medicines for health care 
reform, not President Obama's Big Government takeover.

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