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This afternoon, Rep. Tom Petri addressed the House of Representatives as follows:
Mr. Speaker:
Health care reform is important, but it shouldn't come at the expense of the public's Number One concern: the gut-punch of joblessness.
The massive plans now under consideration threaten to disrupt one-sixth of our economy through tax hikes and punishing regulations.
This is all in the service of a health care bill that is a budgetary train wreck.
This bill forces drastic changes on a deeply divided public.
It promises radical government intrusions in every sector of health care.
It will have the effect of breaking the President's promise that "you can keep what you have."
It will not bend the cost curve down.
It will burden the states with huge, new mandates.
It will send insurance premiums through the roof.
It cuts Medicare, seriously threatening popular Medicare Advantage plans.
It allows for government funding of abortion.
And there is no real liability reform.
We need health care reform - but we can do better than this.
We must do better than this.
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