Issa On Tonight's Health Care Vote And Legislative Bribery: "It's A Sad Day For The American People"

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Issa On Tonight's Health Care Vote And Legislative Bribery: "It's A Sad Day For The American People"

"It's a sad day for the American people. It's a huge tax increase, a cut in senior benefits and absolutely nothing to change the spiraling costs of health care…the concern is if you can bribe, and I mean bribe members of the House and Senate to get their votes then democracy as we know it simply won't work.

"Certainly we need to make sure that all Americans have access to affordable health care. Affordable meaning drive down the costs of health care. Access being a combination of a federal and state understanding that you're going to have to allow people into pools regardless of their age or pre-existing conditions but that's not a disagreement among the American people, it's not a disagreement among Members of Congress, the problem we have is without really attacking those underlying problems, we've simply created new bureaucracy and huge new taxes at a time when American can't afford that.

"H.R. 3438 is a very simple seven page bill that simply says to the American people -- you can have access to the same high quality health care that I enjoy along with 8 million people in the federal government and their family…

"As Speaker Pelosi said, "after we pass it, then you get to see it.' Clearly, they'll be huge amounts of surprises in this bill and unfortunately they'll all be unpleasant."

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