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John Rice Carter: “Above what they're spending now on their health insurance. Now, I don't care how big you are. That's a big chunk of…”

On the recordMay 19, 2010
Above what they're spending now on their health insurance. Now, I don't care how big you are. That's a big chunk of money, and it would shock anybody from the biggest corporation in the world down to the little mom-and-pop to have that kind of percentage of your revenues all of a sudden by government action going out the front door. That's the kind of thing when you don't think things through and figure out what it's going to cost that those things jump up and bite you. But in this instance when we don't figure out what it's going to cost, it's the American people that get jumped up and bitten, and that's what I think we're seeing happen right now. And I think that's unfortunate. I yield back.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia
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May 19, 2010

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Speaker Carter discusses the financial impact of government actions on health insurance costs.

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