Sensenbrenner Speaks with Charlie Sykes about Health Care
Washington,
Nov 3 -
On Tuesday, November 3, Congressman Sensenbrenner spoke with radio host Charlie Sykes about the impact Speaker Pelosi's health care overhaul bill would have on Wisconsinites. Some highlights are included below.
“How soon the Manager’s Amendment is introduced will determine how well she’s [Pelosi] doing on getting the 218 votes she needs to pass the bill.”
“The President has said that he will not sign a bill that adds a penny to the deficit. I can not believe that if you pass a bill that establishes a new program that costs over a trillion dollars, the deficit is not going to go ballooning through the roof.”
“The vast majority of Americans who are opposed to the bill – there were only two people that spoke in favor of it at my Elm Grove Town Meeting – are concerned about the government control over their lives and their health care, but they are also concerned that this Congress and this President are piling deficit upon deficit and debt upon debt. I think it’s almost immoral to say we’ll spend this money on ourselves and then send the bill to our children’s grandchildren to pay.”
“The goal of this bill is to insure people who are uninsured. There are between 30 and 46 million of them… If we insure all of these extra people, and don’t train one additional doctor, one additional nurse, establish one additional hospital, have the type of diagnostic equipment that is in modern health care, you’re going to end up overwhelming the health care delivery system with the 30-46 million uninsured that are brought under the coverage. And that’s going to lead to rationing. The way the rationing will work is delays. If there are not enough MRI machines to do all that’s necessary, somebody is going to have to wait months to get an MRI for something that is not an emergency type thing. That’s what’s happened in Canada. Health care delayed is health care denied.”
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