Washington, D.C. - This is the Pelosi health care plan. It’s wrong for America.

Over 100 new federal agencies, commissions and mandates stands between you and your doctor.

This huge, inefficient new bureaucracy:  Makes your insurance more expensive, forces millions of Americans into a government run plan, raises taxes on workers and small businesses, increases Medicare drug costs for the elderly, adds billions to our frightening deficit and, after throwing a trillion tax dollars at the problem – still leaves 18 million people uninsured.

Big government doesn’t mean better health care. To pay for this massive new bureaucracy, Democrats slash Medicare for the elderly by more than a half-trillion dollars.  That means 660,000 Texas seniors will lose their Medicare plans - and our community hospitals, nursing homes, hospice and home health care will suffer.  It means 40 doctor–owned hospitals will close, killing 15,000 Texas jobs and cutting local care.  It means a million and a half other Texans will see their plans disappear. 

This is not the reform families need. 

Instead, this is all about taking a giant first step toward a single-payer, national health care system.  If the Pelosi plan passes, Washington will ultimately decide what doctors you see, what treatments you deserve and what medicines you receive.  And when you’re sick, will you be worth their cost? 

House Republicans have a different vision.  We listened.  Ours is a careful, step-by-step solution to the complex issue of health care, focusing first on lowering your insurance costs – so more can afford it.    We have no tax increases, no Medicare cuts, no rationing, no mandates and no huge intrusion of government into your most intimate health care decisions.  Just more choices, more fairness and less lawyers.

Best of all, our Republican plan is the only reform that actually lowers your health care premiums - and the deficit.  We need to get health care reform right – the first time.

The Pelosi plan gets it wrong.