BLUNT STATEMENT ON PASSAGE OF DEMOCRATS' GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE
Congressional Desk
November 10, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt, chairman of the House Health Care Solutions Group, voted against the government takeover of health care and released the following statement after House Democrats passed their plan despite bipartisan opposition:
"As I´ve met with patients, doctors, small business owners, and families to talk about health care, one thing is very clear: Missourians want to keep what works and fix what is broken.
"They are tired of bills whose importance is measured in length, rather than effectiveness. But tonight the Washington Democrats´ response was to ram through a budget-busting, 2,000-plus-page health care plan with bipartisan opposition. This is more of the same go-it-alone approach they have used to lock Republicans out of the process from the start.
"It´s families and patients who will suffer most under this government takeover of health care. This bill costs more than $1 trillion, increases premium costs, puts a bureaucrat between you and your doctor, and pays for most of it with Medicare cuts and job-killing tax hikes.
"Instead, we should be focused on fixing what is broken in health care by keeping costs low through medical liability reform and improving access – even for those with pre-existing conditions – through small business health plans and risk pools."
"As I´ve met with patients, doctors, small business owners, and families to talk about health care, one thing is very clear: Missourians want to keep what works and fix what is broken.
"They are tired of bills whose importance is measured in length, rather than effectiveness. But tonight the Washington Democrats´ response was to ram through a budget-busting, 2,000-plus-page health care plan with bipartisan opposition. This is more of the same go-it-alone approach they have used to lock Republicans out of the process from the start.
"It´s families and patients who will suffer most under this government takeover of health care. This bill costs more than $1 trillion, increases premium costs, puts a bureaucrat between you and your doctor, and pays for most of it with Medicare cuts and job-killing tax hikes.
"Instead, we should be focused on fixing what is broken in health care by keeping costs low through medical liability reform and improving access – even for those with pre-existing conditions – through small business health plans and risk pools."
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