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Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act

Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 19, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

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Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the repeal of the government's takeover of health care.

We are well aware of how the health care law created hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes while doing little to drive down costs and causing millions to lose access to health coverage. Even more troubling is how dramatically this law grows government and constricts individual freedom and American exceptionalism.

When this laws was passed, the Democrats said it would create 4 million new jobs. Instead, we got over 2,000 pages of job-killing new taxes and less choice. This law was clearly an overreach of government control.

In place of government-run health care, true reform can be achieved through multiple patient-centered alternatives, including expanding HSAs, association health plans, and allowing the purchase of health insurance across State lines.

Americans agree. A Gallup/USA Today poll this week confirms that only 13 percent of Americans support the current law. Simply put, the American people want this law repealed, and so do I, as I promised.

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