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H.R. 3962--The Affordable Health Care For America Act

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 3, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

H.R. 3962--The Affordable Health Care For America Act

(Mr. BILIRAKIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose Speaker Pelosi's government takeover of health care.

This bill, which weighs in at nearly 2,000 pages and at more than 20 pounds, will raise taxes on individuals and small businesses, cut health care for seniors, raise health care premiums, ration care, and give Federal bureaucrats more power over decisions that should be made by our constituents and by their doctors. The bill raises taxes by $730 billion, and it costs nearly $1.3 trillion. We literally cannot afford this government takeover of health care. There is a better way.

We should, instead, be lowering health care costs by enacting medical liability reform, strengthening association health plans, allowing the purchase of health insurance across State lines, and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal health care programs.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to oppose Speaker Pelosi's health care bill.


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