On the recordMarch 24, 2010
USA Today-Gallup reported that the people of America, the citizens of America, favor what we did by a score of 49 to 40. That is a pretty significant majority. People support this legislation. Why? Because they are tired of being treated by the insurance industry the way they have been treated. My friend talks about the mountain of debt of this bill. We have rules and guidelines in this body, in this Congress, and one of them is we have an independent body that has been set up, not by Republicans, not by Democrats, but by us. It is independent. It is not partisan. That agency, the Congressional Budget Office, determined this bill over the first 10 years will save about $140 billion; over the next 10 years, $1.3 trillion. This is make-believe they talk about all these things that are going to cost so much--$1.3 trillion. I also have to comment on this. My friend, the Republican leader, talks about how hard they were working yesterday when we were at a 45-minute meeting at the White House while the President made history signing for the first time in 100 years major health care reform in this country.
