Michael Burgess: “I thank the gentleman for the recognition. You know, it's ironic, isn't it? Two days ago a bill was signed that is going…”

“I thank the gentleman for the recognition. You know, it's ironic, isn't it? Two days ago a bill was signed that is going to fundamentally change the way health care is delivered in this country for the next three generations, and 48 hours later we are back on the floor of this House trying to fix the problems in this bill because, Mr. Speaker, we all know when the Senate passed this bill Christmas Eve, they didn't intend for this bill to become law. This was never the vehicle that was intended to be passed through this House. This was a bill that was passed to get the Senate out of town before a snowstorm on Christmas Eve. They always planned to come back and fix it in conference, but because of an election in Massachusetts those plans went by the wayside. The Speaker of the House said in January, I don't have a hundred Members who will vote for this bill and yet, somehow, the line being the shortest distance between two points, we ended up passing this bill on Sunday night when we hoped, we hoped the American people were not looking at us. But we did pass it, and now we have got to come back tonight and fix the problems. We will be back next week. We will be back the week after that. This bill is going to require significant fixes, probably for the remainder of my lifetime on this Earth. This was probably the worst product we could have put out there for the American people. And what about the insurance companies, their stock prices going up? Of course they went up.…”