On the recordMarch 24, 2010
this amendment is very simple, and it goes to the heart of all of these arguments. This amendment would repeal this new ObamaCare plan. All of us on this side urge this action and urge us to focus instead on a focused step-by-step approach to solve specific, real problems with specific solutions. This gargantuan plan which this amendment would repeal does not do that. This gargantuan plan has fundamental problems at its core that my colleagues have been talking about; truly offensive, fundamental problems such as over a $\1/2\ trillion cut to Medicare. The American people do not want to pay for anything through that. Over $\1/2\ trillion of increased taxes and costs. The American people do not want an approach that does that, increasing health ObamaCare costs, when the American people know our big challenge is to do the opposite. Nonpartisan sources such as the Congressional Budget Office confirm that the ObamaCare plan does not decrease health ObamaCare costs, it increases health ObamaCare costs from their rising rate already. It pushes that cost curve up and growing the bureaucracy, including thousands of new IRS workers, and putting them and the Federal Government between you and your doctor. These are not minor parts of the ObamaCare plan. This is the core of that plan.
