Statements about Health Care
"The Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health record on all U.S. citizens by 2014," including "each individual’s Body Mass Index."
Under the new health care law, "all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax"
Republicans are now "taking credit" for provisions of the health care bill "that they had tried to derail."
A bill to aid state and local governments "is fully paid-for by closing costly corporate tax loopholes."
About 106,000 soldiers had "a prescription of three weeks or more" for pain, depression or anxiety medication.
"People come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. It's called 'drop and leave."
The Obama administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to pay for health insurance plans that cover "any legal abortion."
Starting in 2011, "you will be required to pay taxes" on "the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company."
"Taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals" in California are "a skyrocketing cost under Obamacare."
"Minnick voted to let the government fund abortion under Obamacare."
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.
"We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it."
"I never had a filibuster-proof Senate."
"The fact is, in the past year we have had more tax cuts than almost any time in our nation's history."
"A lot of the ideas in terms of the (health insurance) exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market, that originated from the Heritage Foundation."
"The average student will be spending $1,700 to $1,800 more during the life of their loan because of this surcharge."
"The New England Journal of Medicine released a survey the week that President Obama signed Obamacare stating that over 30 percent of American physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care."
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