On the recordJuly 10, 2012
I thank the gentleman for yielding. The ranking member just listed off many of the challenges the businesses face, and we agree. But let me add one more. A company in Pueblo, Colorado, PDI, employing better than 200 handicapped individuals, that company is threatening to be able to see their business shut down because of ObamaCare. They simply cannot afford it. That is the challenge that small businesses across this Nation are truly facing, a $2 trillion tax, a $2 trillion tax when we need to be investing in things like competition. Let's create those opportunities, positive opportunities, through health care, allowing the marketplaces to work, ensuring that people have those opportunities to have preexisting conditions covered. Let's let our children who are 26 years old stay on those policies, but let's bring competition to the market and have things like tort reform as well. PDI and those handicapped individuals in Pueblo, Colorado, are counting on common sense, not politics as usual out of Washington, D.C., where one-size-fits-all, and Washington has all the answers. Let's not get between that patient/doctor relationship. The people are counting on positive action.
