Michael Burgess: “I was for and supportive of reforming the health care system, but the law that was passed does not do what was necessary…”

“I was for and supportive of reforming the health care system, but the law that was passed does not do what was necessary to be done. We heard from our constituents over and over again in the summer of 2009: don't mess up what we all have and please do something to help us with costs. We ignored them on both counts. I am troubled because of the drafting errors in this law. I am troubled because we have had not a single oversight hearing in the 10 months since this law was passed. And I am troubled because from the start the government takeover of health care has provided numerous red flags to which Congress has not responded. Secret deals: what about the five groups of health care providers, doctors, insurance companies, medical device manufacturers, drug companies, who were all invited down to the White House, along with a labor union, to kind of come up with some ideas for health care reform. They came out to the Rose Garden and said, We saved $2 trillion. I simply asked for that information in a committee hearing and was denied. $2 trillion in savings, and I am asked to believe that no one wrote anything down? This was not transparency; this was a photo op.”