Health Care That Doesn't Kill Jobs

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Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague. I'm pro-life too. That's why I oppose the Democrat health plan. Mr. Speaker, in the midst of a major recession, the House is considering health care legislation that will place new punitive taxes on small businesses. We need job creation, not job destruction. And small businesses are our best hope for emerging from this economic downturn, but not if we tax them out of their job-creating potential. I've heard from scores of small business owners in North Carolina who are struggling to keep their businesses running, and who want nothing to do with the taxes and burdensome government mandates in the House health care legislation.

Mr. Speaker, we need health care reform in America. I support reform that puts patients first and that won't destroy small businesses. Republicans have a better solution that won't put the government in charge of people's health care, that will make sure we bring down the cost of health care for all Americans, and that ensures affordable access for all Americans and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.

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