dr. bucshon. mr. bucshon: remember the focus what we're trying to do here is focusing on the patient, what's best for the american people and our patients. it's already been quoted a number of times today, i got a couple other quotes. senator schumer also said, the affordable care act could cause rates to go through the roof. that's exactly what we're seeing in the private health insurance. i won't repeat senator baucus' quote about a train wreck. senator rockefeller also said, so confident, if it is not done right the first time it will just simply get worse. and what i'll focus on the rest of the time of what this means to employers and people that have employee -- employer-provided health insurance and what this law is going to do to employers. and let me focus on first what the city of long beach, california, just came out and said recently. they're going to be limiting most of their 1,600 part-time employees to fewer than 27 hours a week on average. so these are employees that had a 40-hour workwe

dr. larry beau chon from indiana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. bucshon: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in strong opposition to obamacare for the reasons we have heard already here today. however i would like to explain how this train wreck is affecting indiana and costing good-paying hoosier jobs. indiana is home to over 300 medical device companies, creating over 54,800 jobs that pay an average salary of $59,706 per year. in the medical device industry, provides $55 billion to indiana's economy. companies have already decided not to expand and many across the country have announced layoffs. the device tax is so dangerous that our friends in the u.s. senate voted recently 79-20 to repeal the medical device tax in the last congress, the house voted in a bipartisan manner to repeal the tax. again we've heard from the white house that the president doesn't support repeacaey nd the money to support obamacare. the tax is a job-killer and stifles innovation and must be repealed. obamacare is full of these type of examples. this near-government takeover of our nation's h