William Tauzin: “Again, you have put it so well. Here we are talking about a family that cannot even afford to buy their own health care…”

“Again, you have put it so well. Here we are talking about a family that cannot even afford to buy their own health care they are at such a low income, struggling. Yet our law now requires them to subsidize, through their taxes, the health care premiums of the wealthy in America. That does not make sense when you talk about part B voluntary programs. You can make an argument, as we have all made the argument, that when it comes to part A, all of us who work in America owe our part A contributions to make sure that part A is solvent. That is maintained in this plan. But to say that working Americans, who cannot afford medical care insurance for their own doctors for their children, and who do not even have coverage for their family, who have to go, if you will, to Hill Burton coverage, or the good graces and charity of their physician for health care, to say to them we are going to ask you to pick up the part B premium for people earning $150,000 or more for next year is a little unfair. If ever there was an unfairness in a system, I think we have found it. We correct that unfairness in this bill.”