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October 29, 2009

King Statement on $894 Billion Liberal Health Care Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Steve King today responded to the $894 billion health care bill unveiled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other liberals.

“After weeks of closed door meetings, the Pelosi Democrats have cobbled together a 1,990 page, $894 billion, deficit expanding government takeover of health care. Liberals say the problem with the American health care system is we spend too much money. So their solution is to spend a whole lot more. Democrats have now perfected a form of ‘irrational logic.’

“The Pelosi Democrats are willing to spend nearly a trillion dollars to reduce the percentage of uninsured from less than four percent of Americans without affordable options down to perhaps two percent, and in the process put in place the framework for socialized medicine. This is a bad deal for every American, those present and grandchildren yet to be born. The American people need to rise up, shut down the phone lines in Congress and kill this bill.”