Larry Bucshon: “Thank you, Dr. Roe, for yielding. It's great to be here with many members of the Doctors' Caucus and again remember the…”

“Thank you, Dr. Roe, for yielding. It's great to be here with many members of the Doctors' Caucus and again remember the focus of what we are trying to do here is focusing on the patient, what's best for the American people and our patients. It's already been quoted a number of times today--I've got a couple other quotes. Senator Schumer also said: The Affordable Care Act could cause rates to go through the roof. That's exactly what we are seeing in the private health insurance. I won't repeat Senator Baucus' statement about a train wreck. But Senator Rockefeller also said: It's so complicated, and if it isn't done right the first time and it's not being done at all, it will just simply get worse. What I'm going to focus on now and the rest of the time is what this means to employers and people that have employer-provided health insurance and what this law is going to do to employers. Let me focus on first what the city of Long Beach, California, just came out and said recently. They are going to be limiting most of their 1,600 part-time employees to fewer than 27 hours a week on average. So these are employees that had a 40-hour workweek and now they are being cut to less than 40 hours to comply with the law. You say, Why would that happen? Well, because city officials say that without cutting payroll hours, new health care benefits would cost up to $2 million more next year and that expense would trigger layoffs and cutbacks in city services.…”