Paul Ryan Speaks Out on Cynical Fiscal Shell Game

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CBO Report: http://www.house.gov/budget_republicans/press/2007/pr20091119cboscore.pdf

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Mr. Speaker, there is so much irony surrounding this bill here. First of all, everybody knows that this bill isnt going anywhere because the Senate already defeated a cheaper version of this bill because it created a huge deficit. I have a score from the Congressional Budget Office that says this bill will raise the deficit by more than $210 billion.

Whats more ironic is that the majority which put in place this huge PAYGO system has just swept it aside and decided to say: Nope, the CBO is wrong, this doesnt increase the deficit; it costs nothing. Why did they do this? They did this because they are trying to pass this health care bill and suggest that it doesnt cost anything.

I have a letter from the CBO today that simply says when you merge these bills together because they are together, this doc fix bill was in the larger health care bill in the first place that this raises the deficit now and into the future. It adds more than many dimes to the deficit now and into the future. It breaks the Presidents pledge and promise on how health care reform will be conducted.

Whats even more ironic are the doctors who are telling us to fix this and we all want to fix this is that we can not even bring a bill to the floor to fix it without raising the deficit.

What I also find especially ironic is that some physicians are saying fix this but then create this new system, which is basically to have Medicare for everybody else. If they think the SGR is a problem now, just wait until you see this system writ large throughout all of American health care. That is a mistake.

We should do this in a bi-partisan way. Fix it, without cranking a huge hole in the deficit. If the majority would have allowed us to bring a bill to the floor, we could have done just that.

Its cynical. We know this bill is not going anywhere. So lets get back to work, fix this problem without putting a major hole in the deficit.

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[nprbiz]

As always the Gentleman from Wisconsin for the win!! Keep it up.

[ohiosux]

@mikeklamecki Interesting. I didn't know that about him.

[mikeklamecki]

Now he is concerned with the deficit? He voted for the auto bailouts! Why wasn't he concerned about the deficit then? Oh yes, he is such a fiscal conservative. He voted for TARP, and the AIG bonus tax. He might as well be a Democrat. Don't let his looks or his rhetoric fool you.