[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9606-9607]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            KING V. BURWELL

  (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, it seems like the whole of Washington is 
awaiting the result of a Supreme Court decision in reference to King v. 
Burwell.
  Mr. Speaker, let me give you the simple truth. As I see it, the 
President broke the law. He broke the law, and people are hurting as a 
consequence.

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  Once this ruling comes down, Congress will be required to put in 
place mechanisms to keep people from being hurt any further, but the 
fact of the matter remains that premiums have gone up, deductibles are 
completely out of sight, leaving many families functionally uninsured. 
We need to address these problems.
  Furthermore, power needs to be devolved back to the States. States 
can do a better job of running their healthcare systems because they 
are closer to the people that they represent.
  The fact of the matter is this healthcare law was a big mistake. It 
is time that it be fixed, and this will be a first step in the road to 
do so.

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