I come to the floor, as I do week after week, as a physician who has practiced medicine in Wyoming for almost one-quarter of a century to give a doctor's second opinion about the health care law, a law that I believe is bad for patients, it is bad for providers--the nurses and the doctors who take care of those patients--and terrible for taxpayers. March 23 of this year, a little over 2 weeks from now, will mark the second anniversary of the President's health care law being signed. Two years ago at this time, Democrats in Congress said the Americans would learn to love this law. As a matter of fact, on March 28, 2010, the senior Senator from New York Mr. Schumer said: As people learn what's exactly in the bill, 6 months from now by election time--the election of 2010, remember--this is going to be a plus. Because the parade of horribles, particularly the worries that the average middle-income person has that this is going to affect them negatively, those will have vanished and they will see it will affect them positively in many ways. Here we are 2 years later. We know that is definitely not the case. The health care law is more unpopular today than it was when it was passed and Nancy Pelosi famously said: First, you have to pass it before you get to find out what is in it. The more the American people have learned about the President's new law, the less they like it.…
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