Jack Kingston: “On the subject of regulation and Government overkill, I understand right now the average family pays about $4,000 a year…”

“On the subject of regulation and Government overkill, I understand right now the average family pays about $4,000 a year more in all total goods and services purchased simply because of the additional cost of regulation, anywhere from, you know, filling out forms to putting in new guardrails on machinery. Some of it is good. Some of it is simply overkill and bureaucracy. One of the things in the health care bill that people need to know about in this 1,342-page document is that if you have a friend who is a physician and you go straight to that physician because, say, they are in the same Sunday school class or kindergarten, you know the physician, and you say, ``Tell me, Johnny has got a little sore throat. What can you do about it?'' Now, that becomes a Federal law under this new health care program. That leaves you subject to a fine of up to $10,000. That is an example of more regulation, more Government coming into your life and destroying, once again, the family because the bureaucracy is now in the formula.”