Rob Woodall: “I confess. I was sitting over here going through my papers. I was afraid I had come down here on the wrong bill here…”

“I confess. I was sitting over here going through my papers. I was afraid I had come down here on the wrong bill here today, listening to my friend describe it. I tell you that, if you listen to that description and you believe it, you ought to vote ``no.'' But it is just not true. It is just not true. In fact, I will go line by line just a little bit. You will not find a CBO document over there that says House Resolution 483 is going to take health care away from 16 million Americans. We are not going to find it. In fact, you won't find a CBO document that says the underlying bill of H.R. 3762 is going to take health care away from anybody because such a document does not exist. CBO did say that the President's healthcare bill would provide health care for 16 million Americans. Yet, the President has joined with this House and that Senate nine times so far to repeal errant provisions of that healthcare bill, and that is what we are going to do here in this legislation today. You won't find any language that suggests that House Resolution 483 is going to deal with preexisting conditions to set back preexisting conditions coverage in any way whatsoever, nor will you find any paper that suggests the underlying bill, H.R. 3672, is going to set back the conversation on preexisting conditions. Why? Because the President led on the issue of preexisting conditions, Mr.…”