On the recordMarch 3, 2010
That makes it awfully awkward, because let's say that some of these bills were scored. You know this well, some of these bills would save a lot of money. And somebody is going to ask: We have a President who wants to spend a trillion dollars at the cost of $5 million in jobs to pass a government takeover of health care, and the Republicans have a plan that is actually going to cut the cost of health care, doesn't have tax increases in it, why not take the less expensive plan? Somebody is going to ask that question. But it is a lot easier if the Republican bills have not had a chance to be scored. Interestingly, there is a guy who is scoring the President's bill who is not CBO, and he is a Democrat. I don't know if you have heard of him, but he is the Democratic Governor of Tennessee. Why would he say anything bad about the Democrats' health care bill, the President's health care bill? The reason is because, guess what, Tennessee is going to have to pay for this government takeover of health care. That trillion dollar price tag that CBO hooked on this bill is not all the cost because some of it is hidden. And guess who is going to pick up some of the pieces of that, it is going to be the various States, and the various States like Tennessee that have tried this government-run scheme of health care. They know it is a disaster. It wrecked health care in Tennessee and Massachusetts. It ran the cost of health care in Tennessee and Massachusetts way up.
