Lummis delivers her statement before the U.S. House votes on the Democrat plan to institute government-forced health care in the United States.
This bill replaces individual freedom and personal responsibility with big government dependency and coercion. It burdens people and small businesses in Wyoming with new taxes for budget busting healthcare reforms and forces people to buy insurance whether it makes sense for them or not.
Every member of the U.S. House had an opportunity to support a health care plan that the American people could afford. The Republican plan I supported cuts the deficit in ten years, lowers healthcare premiums across the country, and it does it without robbing the American people of their freedom and their dignity.
Sadly, this House voted to push millions of Americans into a government-run health care program that even members of Congress will not subject themselves. Speaker Pelosi’s bill will shackle the freedom of the American people while empowering the federal government, which is exactly the opposite of what our founding fathers were trying to achieve with the Constitution.
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