John Rice Carter: “I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for bringing this bill forward. Mr. Speaker, I'd be willing to bet…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for bringing this bill forward. Mr. Speaker, I'd be willing to bet if you took a poll in any household in America and asked, Who do you trust, the IRS or your doctor, doctors would overwhelmingly be trusted; the IRS would be overwhelmingly distrusted. I don't understand when we actually pass laws in this Congress restricting the access to health care information and putting severe penalties on our health care providers for releasing health care information and these HIPAA laws--they've been around a while now, I'd say--and then we write a bill that turns the entire health care system administration over to the one agency that the American people hate more than any other agency. Some of the Democrats like it because they like to get other people's money and spend it. The reality is the IRS is not trusted, and it wasn't trusted before the events that have been described here today. Today they're totally distrusted. In fact, they are totally feared because of what they can do to the private lives of American citizens. This bill speaks for the American people, and they say don't let the IRS get their hands on our health care. They will destroy us. Remember, they're the one agency that doesn't have to meet a burden of proof. They require the public to meet the burden of proof. Don't let the IRS get their hands on our health care.”