All statements involving Tom Price
Says President Barack Obama’s proposed budget includes two new tax increases that would collect about $14 billion.
Sixteen thousand new Internal Revenue Service agents will be "empowered to enforce" the new health care legislation.
New federal projections estimate that the health care overhaul "will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years -- well above the $940 billion Democrats originally claimed."
"[N]early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see."
Congress gave an unelected board "the power to deny care to seniors."
"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now" to pay interest to bondholders.
"Mr. President, multiple times from your administration there have come statements that Republicans have no ideas and no solutions" on health care.
"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."
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