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the original health reform bill extended medicare's life until 2029, but if we repeal it, the medicare trust funds become insolvent in six short years. the patients right to repeal act hurts seniors. it's dangerous for america's health. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, who is actually a member of three subcommittees of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. poe: mr. speaker, never before in the history of our great country has the tax been levied on individual americans by the federal government with the purpose of forcing citizens to do something the government wants them to do. and never before has the government self-righteously ordered americans to buy a product or pay a punitive fine. in my opinion the constitution does not give the federal government, even well-intentioned government, the authority to make citizens buy any product, whether it's a car, whether it's health insurance or even whether it's a box

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it's the medicare program. about 20 years later, the government provided secure health insurance to people in old age so they created the medicare program for people over age 65. yes, medicare provides secure access to health insurance for the time being. they do it in part by -- medicare does it by being completely fiscally unsustainable. we can't provide health insurance in medicare that seniors accessed for the past decades. in addition to that, one of the ways that medicare is to financially unsustainable is that one-third of medicare spending goes towards care not providing care whatsoever. it's not making patients happier, and along the way, medicare causes the quality problems we see in the health care sector. the problems of uncoordinated care, medicare errors that cause tens of thousands of fatalities each year, the problems of a lack of electronic medical records and lack of other technologies and lack of efficientive research. medicare is at the root of the problems. obamacare to the solution on how

you are on medicare. >> yes, i am. >> just be on medicare does make -- does not make you feel you are doing anything wrong because the u.s. government established the medicare program and it is a government insurance program or you -- where you can go to the private doctors and hospitals. do you think government should not be involved in that area of providing medical care for seniors? >> i do not have a problem with that. >> i do not think most americans have a problem. those on medicare tell me they loved it. in fact, they would be lost without it. and those who are not on medicare are paying into the system so that when they are eligible they are going to have access to that as well. with medicare you have insurance, but even with an insurance, the cost of drugs -- tell me what the cost of drugs again are. tell me about the cost of drugs of somebody on medicare. >> $4,550. for the both of us, i just started medicare in january. it would be $9,100 out of pocket. and because of my husband's insulin, he gets into the doughnut hole in a month. there is no saving money ahead of time. >>

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folks who rely on medicare, the people who we represent that rely on medicare will know that their medicare will not evaporate if your bill passes. thank you. >> thank you, mr. thompson. >> thank you. thank you, madam chair. i personally believe that all of us in this room, and i do believe this or else i would not say it,ment to -- want to resolve these very serious problems. particularly today we're talking about health care. as members of the ways and means we've talked about it and talked about it as you all know. i'm very proud of what we did, and i didn't like to be very frank with you. in 2009 and in 2010 in going over the numbers that came out of cbo scoring our bill. well, what else are we going to come up with to save money? that was a favorite line, but a true line because we really wanted to find a way to pay for what we wanted to do, and we changed it. if you look at the bill in the very beginning and what we finalled on, we did listen to a lot of people, republicans independents, intels democrats. it's not a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination. there were things i d

they say are going to take away your medicare. i've had people come to me and say we don't want government run health care, we want our medicare. medicare is a government run program and it will be better and more efficient under this law. >> can you think of an area that can be improved as the senate looks at? is there an area where the two sides come together? >> we ask the republicans to work with us when we're trying to pass this law for two years. we said give us your ideas and they didn't have any ideas to make sure all americans are covered. we cover 32 million uninsured people. they had no idea how to do it. if they come up with the ideas, i want to look at them, but they didn't come up with ideas except to let insurance companies make decisions of whether people will be able to get coverage or not. >> certainly there must be one area in this hyper partisan era in washington. >> there may be something we can look at >> if there were problems, i would have changed in wrote them. this is a bill that was worked on for decades

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and medicare is a government-run program. and it will be a better and more efficient program under this law. >> can you think of one area that can be improved in this law as republicans look at it, as the senate looks at it. is there one area that you think the two sides can improve? >> we asked the republicans, work with us, when trying to pass this law. for two years, we said give us your ideas. they didn't have any ideas to make sure that all americans are covered. we cover 200 million people. they didn't have any idea how to do it. if they come up with good ideas, i want to look at them and see if we reach an agreement. but they didn't come up with an idea to make decisions for the government. >> surely there is one area of this area in washington, we have heard about the insurance forms, the 1099 forms. >> that may be something that we can look at? >> anything else? >> if there were problems with this bill, i would have changed it. this bill is worked on for decades, we took work from senator dole and things from nixon's

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$500 billion cut to medicare. $500 billion cut to medicare for our seniors. what else is in here? $500 billion of tax increases. what else is in here, six years of benefits for 10-years of cost. what else is in here? a new entitlement program. our nation is broke. it is broke because of our entitlement programs and this law added a new entitlement. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. eshoo. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for two minutes. ms. eshoo: i thank the chairman. mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to what i think is really an unwise, unwarranted, and unfair effort to repeal the historic health care law which has brought much needed insurance reform to the american people. for the first time in our nation's history, congress passed legislation to ensure that every american has a comprehensive health insurance plan just as members of congress have. we reduce the deficit by $143 billion over 10 years. and $1.2 tril

medicare is going broke. the biggest fiscal problem of all of them, i believe we need to make down payments on medicare reform. >> in these two years? >> i will have hearings from the budget committee on this. i don't know if we have consensus on this. i don't know whether we will be moving legislation on this, but i think it is something we need to consider and talk about. >> you are young, but you are still old enough to remember 1995, 1996, when the republicans -- i think you were an aide at the time, newt gingrich was the speaker at the time he pushed dramatic reforms in entitlements, medicare and medicaid in particular, and they were the party's and doing politically, -- they were the parties on doing politically. >> that is the historical view right now. >> i think a lot of members of the party think that. so the question is, what is different politically now to make you think he could make the same kinds or similar reforms and survive politically? >> because the economic day of reckoning is right aroun

we cannot continue to provide access to the medicare that seniors had been accessing in medicare forhe past decade. in aition to that, one of the ways that medice is so financially unsustainable is that 33% of medicare spending does not provide any value, does not make patients healthier or happier. that is where rearch shows as. and cses most of this sort of thing happens wherever we see these obama care style price controls. it happens in states like new york that have had these price controls on the books for quite some time. it happens in the employee benefits program. it operates out of the same price controls as obama care. this sort of discrimination will reach you if you are rich, poor, or anywhere in the train. one have is the share of americans that would be hurt immediately by obama here price control. and many overtime will be hurt by these price controls. how do we keep the commitments we have made to the sick? this innovation and other innovations will be possible. some that we cannot foresee will be impossible as long as obama care and government price controls remain on

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think about medicare. when my daughter was in congress, he served on the energy and commerce committee. he helped to write the medicare law. medicare today looks very little like it did when he asserts. he is going to be 90 in march. he is pleased that medicare is there. it changed and improved. this is a platform for a new health-care system for access for people who have never had access to affordable coverage and for new rules for insurance companies. as we go forward, we look forward to working and discussing with the congress wheys that it can be improved. >> it sounds like the house's new republican leaders are going to test the administration's sensitivity for change. they intend to pick apart piece by piece the parts of the law that they dislike. one of the parts they demonized and which the public is not that crazy about is the individual mandate, which in 2014 would require most americans to carry health insurance. this is not something the president was initially in favor of. what are your views

six, it cuts medicare for seniors. goodbye medicare advantage. seven, it threatens our world class quality health care system. se eight, it will add to our already growing budget deficit. nine, it includes taxpayer funding for abortions. 10, it's unconstitutional and there's many, many more. i encourage my colleagues to join me in supporting h.r. 2. and let's start the process of repealing this bill, the current health care reform bill, and replacing it with a bill that america deserves and america wants. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. does the gentleman wish to continue to reserve? mr. pallone: i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from wisconsin, ms. baldwin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. baldwin: i rise on behalf of hundreds of thousands of wisconsin families who have begun to benefit from health care reform. i'm mindful othe -- mindful of the children, young adults and seniors who would lose access to the health care afordable health care coverage should this push to repeal ou

now i'm having problems with my doctors taking medicare. i was not allowed to keep by regular insurance -- my regular intervals when they switched me -- insurance when they switched me. this health care bill, it boggles my mind when we have a congressperson saying we have to pass it before we find out what is in it. now there are a lot of people in my condition that are being dumped onto medicare, which is more of a bird in on government -- burdened of government. i wonder if you could answer why this is being allowed. guest: it goes back to one of the things you heard the president say on the debate over health care. if you like the debate -- if you like the coverage you have, you get to keep it. unfortunately, like many americans, you have learned that is not the case. i have seen studies that show as many as half of american to get their insurance through work may lose it because of obamacare. why would that be? if the fine for not covering for your employers is less than if you cover them. it is an easy financial calculation to what com

medicare and medicaid in particular. and there were parties undoing politically or at least that is -- >> that's the historical view right now i would say. >> and a lot of members of your party think that. >> that's right. >> if you ask bob dole, i think he would concur with that. so the question is, what is different politically now been banned to make you think you could make the same kind for similar reforms and survive politically? because the economic day of reckoning is right around the corner. >> because the tens of trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities are right up there in front of us. medicare is going insolvent later in the decade and medicare is the greatest cause of our debt problems. and because baby boomers start retiring this year. we are going from approximately 40 million retirees to approximately 80 million. we are increasing the benefit consuming generation, but only increasing tax paying and so we have looming insolvency. gao -- if we look at gao liability figure, it's basically a measurement.