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Boehner: Obama Administration Report Confirms Speaker Pelosi’s Bill Increases Health Care Costs
Washington
(Nov 14, 2009)
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) responded today to an analysis by nonpartisan, independent experts at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requested by House Ways & Means Ranking Republican Dave Camp (R-MI) on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) health care bill. The report unequivocally shows that Speaker Pelosi’s bill would raise national health care costs – not lower them as the Speaker and House Democrats have asserted – by $289 billion if it were enacted. Boehner issued the following statement:
“This report once again discredits Democrats’ assertions that their $1.3 trillion government takeover of health care will lower costs, and it confirms that this bill violates President Obama’s promise to ‘bend the cost curve.’ It’s now beyond dispute that their bill will raise costs, which is exactly what the American people don’t want. Instead of working with Republicans on common-sense solutions to lower costs, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats instead have chosen to create a health care monstrosity that will make things worse for middle-class families and small business. It doesn’t have to be this way. Democrats should scrap their current proposal and work in a bipartisan way on a plan to lower costs and increase access at a price tag our nation can afford.”
NOTE: House Republicans have offered better solutions to lower health care costs for families and small businesses. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that the Republican health care plan will lower premiums by up to 10 percent and reduce the deficit by $68 billion over 10 years without imposing tax increases on families and small businesses.
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