Michele Bachmann: “I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. If there's anything that we have learned, Mr. Speaker, over the last…”

“I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. If there's anything that we have learned, Mr. Speaker, over the last several years as we've debated the President's health care plan, it is that it's been a mirage, and it has been built on a series of one broken promise after another. The President told us that we would be saving $2,500 a year per household if we passed his health care bill. But the sad reality is that Americans' health insurance premiums have increased by almost that amount, which means the President was off by a stunning $5,000 per household. And Americans are pulling their pockets inside out saying, Mr. President, I don't have the money to pay $5,000 more per year on my health insurance policy. Of course they don't. Because this has proved to be the crown jewel of socialism. That's what government health care is. Senior citizens realized early on they had the most to lose by the President's health insurance policy because what they found from this bill, which has been commonly called ObamaCare, is that $575 billion will be stolen away from them out of Medicare. And not only will they have $575 billion less in Medicare; they're also looking at having to spend--senior citizens--out of their pocket $200 billion more in increased taxes for Medicare. That's a big loss for America's senior citizens. But it doesn't stop there, Mr. Speaker.…”