[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13949]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, before the Federal Government 
got into health care, medical care was cheap and almost everyone could 
afford it. Doctors even routinely made house calls.
  When Medicare was passed, it was predicted that after 25 years it 
would cost only $12 billion. Instead, it cost 10 times that much. This 
year, it will cost over $600 billion.
  All Federal medical programs have cost many times more than was 
estimated on the front end. Already, we read ObamaCare is going to cost 
at least two or three times more than it was estimated when it was 
passed.
  Federal medical programs make and have made a few people and 
companies very wealthy; however, they have made it so only 
multibillionaires can pay what is being charged for medical care.
  Howard Dean, a former Democratic National Chairman, says that 
ObamaCare will cause health care to be rationed.
  The Unaffordable Care Act is taking us toward lower quality, 
shortages, waiting periods, all at greater expense for medical care. It 
needs to be stopped before it makes our health care problems even worse 
than they now are.

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