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Ga. GOP delegation: No way on Pelosi's health plan
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ATLANTA – Republican Congressmen from Georgia are criticizing the new health care bill, saying it was crafted in secret and will be detrimental to the country.
"Republicans and Democrats agree that we have too many uninsured Americans and too many family tragedies related to health care costs," U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., said in a statement. "But let’s be clear: This legislation won’t meet those needs urgently. In fact, benefits don’t take affect for three more years. The only thing that the Democrats think is ‘urgent’ enough to enact immediately are the tax hikes and mandates that will kill off even more jobs in this ailing economy."
Republicans in both Georgia and nationally have focused much of their criticism toward House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
"Today we learned that this is no longer the People’s House; it is now Pelosi’s House," U.S. Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., said in a statement. "After all the debate in Congress and across the country, the Speaker has produced a bill that is essentially the same as the one she started with months ago.
"This 2,000 page plan is a government takeover that will limit choice, competition, and innovation in health care while increasing costs and decreasing quality," Price added. "It includes a job-killing employer mandate, an individual mandate that requires Washington bureaucrats to define what kind of coverage is acceptable, burdensome tax increases, cuts to Medicare Advantage benefits, and a huge expansion of Medicaid that will break already strained state budgets. Americans demonstrated their strong opposition to this government takeover of health care last summer, yet their wishes have been totally ignored by the Democrat leaders who wrote this bill behind closed doors."
The plan is estimated to cost $894 billion. With 400,000 words in the 1,990-page bill, it costs roughly "$2.24 million per word," Politico reported.
"The bill they unveiled (Thursday) was drafted behind closed doors by Nancy Pelosi and her liberal allies," Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., said in a statement. "A fancy press conference on the Capitol steps and a new bill name and number doesn’t hide what this is: a government takeover of our nation’s health care system. This is the absolute wrong direction for America and a death knell for quality care for American patients."
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