The American People Deserve A Bipartisan Approach On Health Care

Floor Speech

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, the House Democrat leadership remains opposed to working in a bipartisan effort to cure what ails our health care system. This is unfortunate because this has caused bipartisan opposition to their Big Government, job-killing, debt-producing, tax-hike health care plan. The American people deserve better to create jobs.

The American people know better than to believe that the government is best to run our Nation's health care system or keep costs down. The Democrat plan does not lower the cost of health care. It just raises taxes on small businesses and cuts Medicare by half a trillion dollars. Those tax increases and Medicare cuts do not even cover the costs producing an estimated $239 billion more added to the deficit. Taxing small businesses and knocking seniors off their current health care plan is no way to reform health care.

Republicans stand ready to work with our Democrat colleagues to develop commonsense reform.

In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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