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GOP Leader: "According to his own administration's analysis, the health care law the President signed one month ago today would violate his pledge to 'bend the cost curve' and force millions of seniors off their current Medicare coverage."
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WASHINGTON, April 23 /Standard Newswire/ -- House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) responded today to an analysis by the Obama Administration's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) showing that President Obama's new health care law falls well short of his pledge to "bend the cost curve." According to this report, Washington Democrats' government takeover of health care -- which was signed into law one month ago today -- actually increases national health care costs over the next 10 years by $311 billion. CMS also determined that the new law will force more than seven million seniors off their current Medicare coverage.
Boehner issued the following statement:
- "This Obama Administration report confirms that Washington Democrats' government takeover of health care fails to deliver the one thing the American people wanted out of reform: lower costs.
"According to his own administration's analysis, the health care law the President signed one month ago today would violate his pledge to 'bend the cost curve' and force millions of seniors off their current Medicare coverage. This is in addition to what we already know about how this new law is squeezing employers with job-killing tax hikes and leaving middle-class families to brace for higher premiums. That's why Republicans are fighting to repeal this job-killing health care law and replace it with reforms focused first on lowering costs and protecting jobs.
"Washington Democrats refused to wait for this critical analysis to be completed before forcing their job-killing health care bill through Congress, and now we know why."
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S BROKEN PROMISES TO "BEND THE COST CURVE":
July 22, 2009: "And I think it's important for us to bend the cost curve, separate and apart from coverage issues..." (Interview with The Washington Post)
September 10, 2009: "And it [the health reform plan] will slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses, and our government." (Remarks to a Joint Session of Congress)
September 15, 2009: "...[T]he only thing that is going to allow us to close the structural deficit that we have that is piling on debt for our children and our grandchildren is if we are able to bend the cost curve and reduce the cost of health care inflation..." (Fundraiser for Sen. Arlen Specter)
February 7, 2010: "If we can start bending the cost curve on health care, that's the most important thing we can do to deal with the deficits long term." (Interview with CBS News)
