A proposal designed to reduce health care costs will instead increase national health care spending by $311 billion.

I think what we are talking about here is the downside financial risk of taking what is essentially a trillion dollar gamble.

I believe as the law is rolled out, as the administration works with businesses to help them understand their obligations and benefits, and as we in Congress improve on components of this bill, our economy will continue to strengthen…

Reducing staff, cutting benefits.

Unfortunately, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is not the solution to our health care woes.

About 11,000 small businesses in my district qualify for tax credits to help them pay for the cost of covering their employees.

The CBO has estimated that that health reform will lower the cost of a given plan in the small employer market by 1 to 4 % in 2016.

I think that the substantial savings that is anticipated by the act in its second decade comes from across-the-board cuts to provider rates under Medicare.

I will lay off the necessary number of employees to cover the extra costs.

We really believe, not only under the tenth amendment, but the fact that we are closer to the people and therefore govern a little better, as Mr. Jefferson said, that we ought to have a little more latitude to be able to do these…

Those taxes will be passed along to workers in the form of lower wages or fewer jobs.

Stimulus is appropriate when the economy is falling, and we can debate the effectiveness of the American Recovery Act.