On the recordJanuary 19, 2011
I thank my good friend. Well, so much for openness and transparency. We're going to do all this without any hearings, without knowing what's going on. But I'm going to tell you a little bit on my Republican side of the aisle here about what this is really going to do: Insurance companies will be able to deny 292,000 individuals in my district, including 33,000 children, an opportunity to have health insurance, and this will be because of preexisting conditions. They're going to increase the number of uninsured in my district, the 15th of Michigan, by 20,000. They will increase the costs to hospitals of providing uncompensated care in the 15th District alone by $182 million. They're going to cost each American $1,000 more because the uninsured are going to go in and get health care anyhow. I want to tell you what is going to happen with one young lady who has a terrible condition called endometriosis. She is going to receive now health insurance through the legislation passed because that insurance will flow to her until she is 26 on her father's insurance. But you're going to take that away from her. And you're going to see to it that the doughnut hole doesn't close because of the fact that you are saying no longer is this law going to be in effect. We want to see to it that the American people benefit from this. The repeal that you're talking about today will see to it that they do not. What's it going to do to the deficit? Add $1.4 trillion to the deficit.
