HR3200: The Democrat/Obama Health Bill and It's Alarming Effects Would Devistate American Economy and LIfestyle

Congressional Hearing testimony confirms the devistating outcome of HR3200:


Under testimony during Congressional Hearings July 22, 2009, Senator Dan Burton spoke directly and rationally about the devastating blow the Obama supported Health bill would have on the American people. He cited the Congressional Budget Office, Lewin Group, a private think tank that did models and calculations on the data of legislation as we know it thus far, and colleagues, as well as common sense to illustrate his points.

While this article does not serve to give full dialog to the subject of Socialized Health Care, nor this bill, it does use Senator Burton's full text to illustrate key points in the legislation's ultimate and grim outcome.

Below is the full text of his testimony, verbatim:

There’s been an awful lot of misinformation about the Democrat health care proposal, Mr. Speaker, and so I would like to take just a couple of minutes tonight to talk to my colleagues about what’s really happening and what will happen if this bill becomes law.

According to the Lewin Group, there will be 114 million Americans who could lose their current coverage under the bill according to this organization. 4.7 million is the number of the jobs that could be lost as a result of taxes on businesses that cannot afford to provide health care insurance coverage according to a model developed by the Council of Economic Advisers: $818 billion in total new taxes on individuals who cannot afford health care coverage and employers who cannot afford to provide coverage that meet the Federal bureaucrat standards; $1.28 trillion in new Federal spending in the next 10 years, but some believe it will be as much as $3 trillion. And then there are 33 entitlement programs the bill creates, expands, or extends in an increase from where we are right now.

This is the organizational chart [not displayed in the record] of the health care plan the Democrats are proposing. The white spots are new agencies that will be created or will be added to the plan, and it’s going to be a real maze for American to go through in order to get health care. It will result, in my opinion, in most people’s opinions who study this, in rationing of health care and additional cost to the taxpayers of this country to the tune of between $1 trillion and $3 trillion over a decade.

Now, I just want to quote some of the things that have been said by our leaders over the past few days about this plan.

Yesterday, President Obama, when he was talking about this, said that this bill will not add to the deficit. He said: I will not sign a bill that adds to the deficit. Period. That is a direct quote from the President yesterday.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the House bill, this bill, will add $239 billion to the deficit. So either the Congressional Budget Office or the President is wrong because it is going to add to the deficit, according to CBO.

Representative CHARLIE RANGEL, one of my good friends her in the Congress, was commenting on President Obama and Speaker Pelosi by saying he thought they were moving too fast. He was overheard to say yesterday or day before yesterday: No one wants to tell the Speaker that she’s moving too fast and they darn sure don’t want to tell the President. He was on his way to a closed door meeting about this because there is an awful lot of concern about this bill, even among Democrats.

Speaker Pelosi, in a front page interview in USA Today, said: Many Members think that there’s more to be squeezed from the hospitals, the pharmaceuticals companies and the docs. Squeeze them. And I hope all of those institutions are listening.

Joe Biden, the Vice President, said: We’re going to go bankrupt as a Nation, he warned at an event in Virginia last week. He continued: People, when I say that, look at me and say, What are you talking about, JOE? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt? And he says, yes, we do have to spend more money to keep from going bankrupt.

Now that’s something that is new to me. I have never heard that you can spend your way out of bankruptcy. And the White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, told the New York Times that Obama intends to use tonight’s press conference, that is going to happen this evening as a “6-month report card,” and he is going to talk to the American people about “how we’ve rescued the economy form the worst recession” and that we’re moving forward with our legislative agenda.

Now if they’ve rescued us from the worst recession, I’d like to know how we’re going to explain to the American people that we are very rapidly approaching 10 percent unemployment when just a month or so ago they said it would’t go above 8 percent, and how when they said they weren't going to spend us into the red anymore, and we’re looking at trillions of dollars of additional spending. So tonight I hope everybody watches the President and listens to him. But I hope they ask themselves, are things better today then they were 6 months ago, when you took office, or are they worse? Because he’s going to tell you everything is coming up roses.

(Sen. Dan Burton, ID; Congressional Record, July 22. 2009; Thomas, Library of Congress.)

Please contact you representatives, particularly your Senators, (being this bill has already passed the House of Representatives) to let them know that HR3200's devastating effects and government control are not what you want for your family. Time is an issue.