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Health Care

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 4, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

Health Care

Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, after weeks of meeting behind closed doors, last week Speaker Pelosi unveiled her latest plan for a government takeover of health care.

According to a preliminary estimate by the Congressional Budget Office, the Pelosi health care plan includes more than $1 trillion in new Federal spending on health care over the next 10 years. And when one looks past the budget gimmicks, the reality is the Pelosi health care plan will cost taxpayers roughly $1.3 trillion and create 111 new bureaucracies.

This is not the kind of responsible health care reform the American people want. It's time for Speaker Pelosi to dump her budget-buster plan masquerading as health care reform and start over.

House Republicans have a plan for health care reform that will lower costs and provide greater access to affordable health care for all Americans. That's what the American people want.


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