JOHN BOEHNER

            House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today commented on the announcement by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that it is unable to provide an analysis of the cost of President Obama’s health care proposal, noting that the CBO has confirmed, by contrast, that the alternative health care bill put forth by House Republicans would lower health care premiums by up to 10 percent.  Boehner’s statement:

            “On Thursday, the White House will stage a taxpayer-funded ‘bipartisan summit’ during which the starting point for discussion will be a new health care plan that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it cannot even analyze due to a lack of detail.  House Republicans posted our alternative health care bill online months ago – and the Congressional Budget Office has not only analyzed it, but confirmed that it would lower health care premiums by as much as 10 percent for American families and small businesses.  The Republican bill will achieve this goal without job-killing tax hikes, without unconstitutional mandates on individuals, without cuts in Medicare benefits, without setting up a vast new federal bureaucracy, and without replacing Americans’ current health care with government-run care.
 
            “As I and other Republicans have said repeatedly since the president announced this ‘summit,’ a productive bipartisan discussion begins with a clean sheet of paper.  Washington Democrats should listen to the American people, scrap their job-killing government takeover of health care, and start working with Republicans to craft a plan worthy of the people we serve.”

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