Kendrick Meek: “Well, it is interesting, Mr. Ryan, that when you started talking about health care, I think it is important that we have…”

“Well, it is interesting, Mr. Ryan, that when you started talking about health care, I think it is important that we have plans to cut health care costs. We also want to reduce the number of the uninsured and provide tax credits for health insurance for small businesses. Mr. Ryan, there are a number of small businesses in my district that say, you know something, Congressman? I would like to offer a real health care plan to my employees, Mr. Speaker, but they can't. They can't do it because they, A, cannot afford it, and, B, the insurance is too high. Even when you have insurance, you may call it insurance, but the premiums are too high. Also making sure we allow patients to buy into a CHIPA program, and also allow Americans age 55 to 64 to buy Medicare, and also provide proposals to bring down the cost of prescription drugs. Mr. Speaker, the President mentioned nothing, absolutely nothing, you can check the speech on the White House Web site, nothing on prescription drugs, nada, even though we have seniors throughout the country trying to figure out where is the cost savings in the bill that was passed are. I mean, absolutely nothing. I can see at least like one little word. ``Well, I want to address this.'' Just one line. Nowhere in the speech. So the American people know as far as the majority, the Republican majority, you have the Republican U.S. House of Representatives looking forward to the status quo.…”