[From nobody Mon Nov 23 10:29:52 2009 Received: from p-ess-sen4s.senate.gov ([156.33.195.245]) by mail.turbonet.com (Cactus Mail Server v9.4.0) with ESMTP id BHF96936 for <lfalen@turbonet.com>; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:37:36 -0800 Received: from p-ess-sen4s.senate.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by p-ess-sen4s.senate.gov (Switch-3.3.2mp/Switch-3.3.2mp) with ESMTP id nAKMXDUM008117; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:13 -0500 Received: from p-ess-sen4s.senate.gov with LMTP by p-ess-sen4s.senate.gov (3.1.0/sieved-3-1-build-1295); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:12 -0500 Received: from SHARED-WSH-HT02.shared.ussenate.us (hubtransportpcf.senate.gov [156.33.222.3]) by p-ess-sen4s.senate.gov (Switch-3.3.2mp/Switch-3.3.2mp) with ESMTP id nAKMWjCQ007685 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=FAIL); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:45 -0500 Received: from SENATE-EX05.senate.ussenate.us ([156.33.248.44]) by SHARED-WSH-HT02.shared.ussenate.us ([156.33.222.3]) with mapi; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:44 -0500 From: "Crapo News Release (Crapo)" <newsclips@crapo.senate.gov> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:44 -0500 Subject: CRAPO TO DELIVER NATIONAL ADDRESS ON HEALTH BILL Thread-Topic: CRAPO TO DELIVER NATIONAL ADDRESS ON HEALTH BILL Thread-Index: AcpqMV9oUNkpoLOhSkCG2THaTMVN7A== Message-ID: <EF22B21D8CEAA148B030C28A9708DB9E0104073267@SENATE-EX05.senate.ussenate.us> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_EF22B21D8CEAA148B030C28A9708DB9E0104073267SENATEEX05sen_" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Client-IP: 156.33.222.3 --_000_EF22B21D8CEAA148B030C28A9708DB9E0104073267SENATEEX05sen_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE = CONTACT: Susan Wheeler (202) 224-5150 November 20, 2009 = Lindsay Nothern (208) 3= 44-1108 CRAPO TO DELIVER NATIONAL ADDRESS ON HEALTH BILL Chosen by Republican Leader to discuss health care reform legislation Washington, DC - Idaho Senator Mike Crapo is delivering a national address = on the health care legislation expected to be considered by the U.S. Senate= Saturday evening. Crapo was chosen by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McCo= nnell to offer the Republican response to the President's weekly radio addr= ess. The address airs Saturday morning on many radio stations. "Americans are calling on Congress for health care reform because they can = no longer tolerate its skyrocketing cost," Crapo said. "They want us to st= op the punishing increases in insurance premiums and health care costs that= , year after year, are driving families across this nation to the edge. An= d, they want us to ensure that they have meaningful access to quality healt= h care. But, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally revealed the 2= ,074-page bill that has been crafted for weeks now behind closed doors, tha= t's hardly what we got. "This two-thousand page bill will: * Drive up the cost of health care insurance and medical care, not do= wn; * Increase taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars; * Cut Medicare for senior citizens by hundreds of billions of dollars= ; * Grow the federal government by over $2.4 trillion in new spending; * Push the needy uninsured into a failing Medicaid system; * Impose a damaging unfunded mandate on our struggling states; * Leave millions of Americans uninsured; and * Establish a massive governmental intrusion into management of our h= ealth care economy. "This is not true health care reform, and it is not what the American peopl= e want. This bill will result in higher premiums and higher health care cos= ts for Americans - period. "At a time when we are experiencing record double-digit unemployment, the R= eid bill raises taxes by nearly half a trillion dollars. A significant num= ber of these provisions violate President Obama's promise to the American p= eople, namely that lower- and middle-class Americans would not see a tax in= crease under his proposals. And, yet, this bill clearly breaks that promi= se as it taxes a wide range of Americans: the uninsured and the insured; f= amilies with so-called high value insurance plans; employers who create job= s or provide retiree drug coverage; individuals who need medicines or medic= al devices; and many others. It also levies fines and penalties on individ= uals, families and businesses. "Medicare faces cuts of nearly $500 billion to create the new government en= titlement, even though Medicare is already facing enormous unfunded liabili= ties and looming insolvency. These cuts will reduce access to and the quali= ty of care our seniors receive from a number of Medicare providers, includi= ng hospitals, nursing homes, home health and hospice services. And, as they= see their access to and quality of care reduced, seniors enrolled in the p= opular Medicare Advantage plans will also lose many of the benefits that th= ey enjoy today. "We are already experiencing record deficits and debt, and yet, this bill c= reates a massive expansion of government, growing the size of the federal g= overnment by over $2.4 trillion over ten full years of implementation. Whe= n you take away the budget gimmicks used in the early years of the implemen= tation that make the total cost look smaller, the truth is glaring and the = Congressional Budget Office agrees: this plan will increase federal spendi= ng and health costs, not lower them. That means both you and the federal g= overnment will see costs go up. "The legislation pushes 15 million people into the failing Medicaid system = rather than giving them access to health insurance. And, in addition to fo= rcing the neediest of the uninsured into a failing entitlement program, thi= s expansion will result in $25 billion in unfunded Medicaid mandates on the= states, which are already struggling financially. This mandate further je= opardizes state budgets as it forces them to drive up spending. "The bill creates a government option insurance company and establishes unp= recedented expansion of governmental control over health care. It establish= es the government as the determiner of what kind of insurance Americans can= purchase. It also imposes new federal mandates on all Americans. The fir= st mandate would apply to the individual: buy insurance or the IRS will col= lect a fine from you. Then, on employers: face a penalty if you don't pro= vide a government-approved health plan. The bill imposes $28 billion in ne= w taxes on employers who don't comply. Those new taxes would be passed alo= ng to employees in the form of reduced wages and lost jobs. "You're going to hear a lot about this bill. That's why I encourage you to= read the bill yourself and form your own opinion. The bill is available on= my website as well as a number of other Internet sites. Take a close look= at how the bill is funded and who and what it covers and doesn't cover and= how it may impact you and your family. It's a real eye-opener! "In recent months, I've heard from many Idahoans in my home state about hea= lth care, and they echo what Americans want in health care reform--lower co= sts and better quality. What Americans really want is the kind of step-by-= step reforms that Republicans have been advocating for years - common-sense= ideas like the ability to purchase insurance across state lines, allowing = small businesses to pool together to offer more affordable health insurance= to their employees; changing the incentives in our system from numbers of = procedures to quality of outcomes; eliminating pre-existing condition limit= ations, equalizing the tax treatment of insurance; eliminating waste, fraud= and abuse and promoting wellness and prevention programs that encourage pe= ople to make healthy choices. These are the kinds of reform that make sens= e and would really make a difference for all Americans. Thank you for liste= ning." Crapo's comments can be viewed on his YouTube site at: http://www.youtube.= com/senatorcrapo FOR INTERESTED MEDIA: An MP3 file with Crapo's remarks is available under = Multimedia at Senator Crapo's website, http://crapo.senate.gov; by calling = 1-800-545-1267 and pressing 327 at any time during or after the greeting an= d instructions; or on the Internet at http://src.senate.gov/radio/ under Cr= apo. To directly link to this news release, please use the following address: http://crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/release_full.cfm?id=3D320160 # # # ...................................................................... This is generated from an unattended mailbox. If you have constituent comme= nts or information you would like forwarded to Senator Crapo, please do so = at the Senator's website, http://crapo.senate.gov<http://crapo.senate.gov/>= . 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&nbsp;Lindsay= Nothern (208) 344-1108</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><a name=3D"OLE_LINK3"></a><a name=3D"OLE_LINK2"><fon= t size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Ari= al">&nbsp;</span></font></a></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><fon= t size=3D"5" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Ari= al;font-weight:bold">CRAPO TO DELIVER NATIONAL ADDRESS ON HEALTH BILL</span= ></font></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center;line-hei= ght:110%"><b><i><font size=3D"4" color=3D"black" face=3D"Arial"><span style= =3D"font-size:14.0pt;line-height:110%; font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Chosen by= Republican Leader to discuss health care reform legislation</span></font></i></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"text-indent:22.5pt"><i><font size=3D"1" fac= e=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:ita= lic">&nbsp;</span></font></i></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">Washington</span></font><font face=3D"Arial"><span sty= le=3D"font-family:Arial">, DC</span></font><font face=3D"Arial"><span style= =3D"font-family:Arial"> &#8211; Idaho Senator Mike Crapo is delivering a national address on the health care legislation= expected to be considered by the U.S. Senate Saturday evening.&nbsp; Crapo= was chosen by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to offer the Republ= ican response to the President&#8217;s weekly radio address.&nbsp; The address airs Saturday morning on many radio stati= ons.&nbsp; </span> </font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span= style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&#8220;Americans are calling on Congress for health care= reform because they can no longer tolerate its skyrocketing cost,&#8221; C= rapo said.&nbsp; &#8220;They want us to stop the punishing increases in insurance premiums and health care costs that, year= after year, are driving families across this nation to the edge.&nbsp; And= , they want us to ensure that they have meaningful access to quality health= care.&nbsp; But, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally revealed the 2,074-page bill that has been crafted for = weeks now behind closed doors, that&#8217;s hardly what we got.&nbsp; </span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&#8220;This two-thousand page bill&nbsp;will: </span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <ul style=3D"margin-top:0in" type=3D"disc"> <li class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font= -size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">Drive up the cost of health care insurance and medi= cal care, not down; </span></font></li><li class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial">= <span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">Increase taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars; </span></font></li><li class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial">= <span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">Cut Medicare for senior citizens by hundreds of bil= lions of dollars; </span></font></li><li class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial">= <span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">Grow the federal government by over $2.4 trillion i= n new spending; </span></font></li><li class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial">= <span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">Push the needy uninsured into a failing Medicaid sy= stem; </span></font></li><li class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial">= <span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">Impose a damaging unfunded mandate on our strugglin= g states; </span></font></li><li class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial">= <span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">Leave millions of Americans&nbsp;uninsured; and </span></font></li><li class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial">= <span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">Establish a massive governmental intrusion into man= agement of our health care economy.&nbsp; </span></font></li></ul> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&#8220;This is not true health care reform, and it is no= t what the American people want. This bill will result in higher premiums a= nd higher health care costs for Americans - period.&nbsp; </span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&#8220;At a time when we are experiencing record double-= digit unemployment, the Reid bill raises taxes by nearly half a trillion do= llars.&nbsp; A significant number of these provisions violate President Obama&#8217;s promise to the American p= eople, namely that lower- and middle-class Americans would not see a tax in= crease under his proposals.&nbsp;&nbsp; And, yet, this bill clearly breaks = that promise as it taxes a wide range of Americans:&nbsp; the uninsured and the insured; families with so-called high value insuranc= e plans; employers who create jobs or provide retiree drug coverage; indivi= duals who need medicines or medical devices; and many others.&nbsp; It also= levies fines and penalties on individuals, families and businesses.&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&#8220;Medicare faces cuts of nearly $500 billion to cre= ate the new government entitlement, even though Medicare is already facing = enormous unfunded liabilities and looming insolvency. These cuts will reduce access to and the quality of ca= re our seniors receive from a number of Medicare providers, including hospi= tals, nursing homes, home health and hospice services. And, as they see the= ir access to and quality of care reduced, seniors enrolled in the popular Medicare Advantage plans will als= o lose many of the benefits that they enjoy today.</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&#8220;We are already experiencing record deficits and d= ebt, and yet, this bill creates a massive expansion of government, growing = the size of the federal government by over $2.4 trillion over ten full years of implementation.&nbsp; When yo= u take away the budget gimmicks used in the early years of the implementati= on that make the total cost look smaller, the truth is glaring and the Cong= ressional Budget Office agrees:&nbsp; this plan will increase federal spending and health costs, not lower them.&nbsp= ; That means both you and the federal government will see costs go up.</spa= n></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&#8220;The legislation pushes 15 million people into the= failing Medicaid system rather than giving them access to health insurance= .&nbsp; And, in addition to forcing the neediest of the uninsured into a failing entitlement program, this expansi= on will result in $25 billion in unfunded Medicaid mandates on the states, = which are already struggling financially.&nbsp; This mandate further jeopar= dizes state budgets as it forces them to drive up spending.</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&#8220;The bill creates a government option insurance co= mpany and establishes unprecedented expansion of governmental control over = health care. It establishes the government as the determiner of what kind of insurance Americans can purch= ase.&nbsp; It also imposes new federal mandates on all Americans.&nbsp; The= first mandate would apply to the individual: buy insurance or the IRS will= collect a fine from you.&nbsp; Then, on employers:&nbsp; face a penalty if you don&#8217;t provide a government-approved health pla= n.&nbsp; The bill imposes $28 billion in new taxes on employers who don&#82= 17;t comply.&nbsp; Those new taxes would be passed along to employees in th= e form of reduced wages and lost jobs.</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&#8220;You&#8217;re going to hear a lot about this bill.= &nbsp; That&#8217;s why I encourage you to read the bill yourself and form = your own opinion. The bill is available on my website as well as a number of other Internet sites.&nbsp; Take a close look at ho= w the bill is funded and who and what it covers and doesn&#8217;t cover and= how it may impact you and your family.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a real eye-opener!= </span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&#8220;In recent months, I&#8217;ve heard from many Idah= oans in my home state about health care, and they echo what Americans want = in health care reform--lower costs and better quality.&nbsp; What Americans really want is the kind of step-by-st= ep reforms that Republicans have been advocating for years &#8212; common-s= ense ideas like the ability to purchase insurance across state lines, allow= ing small businesses to pool together to offer more affordable health insurance to their employees; changing the incentiv= es in our system from numbers of procedures to quality of outcomes; elimina= ting pre-existing condition limitations, equalizing the tax treatment of in= surance; eliminating waste, fraud and abuse and promoting wellness and prevention programs that encourage pe= ople to make healthy choices.&nbsp; These are the kinds of reform that make= sense and would really make a difference for all Americans.&nbsp;Thank you= for listening.&#8221;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span= style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">Crapo&#8217;s comments can be viewed on his YouTube site= at:&nbsp; </span></font><a href=3D"http://www.youtube.com/senatorcrapo"><font face=3D= "Arial"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial">http://www.youtube.com/senatorcra= po</span></font></a></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" color=3D"navy" face=3D"Arial"><span= style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">FOR INTERESTED MEDIA:&nbsp; An MP3 file with Crapo&#8217= ;s remarks is available under Multimedia at Senator Crapo&#8217;s website, </span></font><a href=3D"http://crapo.senate.gov" title=3D"http://crapo.sen= ate.gov/"><font face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial">http://cra= po.senate.gov</span></font></a><font face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-fam= ily:Arial">; by calling 1-800-545-1267 and pressing 327 at any time during or after the greeting and instructions; or on the I= nternet at </span></font><a href=3D"http://src.senate.gov/radio/" title=3D"http://src.= senate.gov/radio/"><font face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-family: Arial">http://src.senate.gov/radio/</span></font></a><font face=3D"Arial"><= span style=3D"font-family:Arial"> under Crapo.</span></font></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-= size:12.0pt; 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