“Three things about Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s health-care bill are already clear: It will raise the cost of Americans’ health-insurance premiums; it will kill jobs with tax hikes and new mandates, and it will cut seniors’ Medicare benefits. The fact that it weighs in at nearly 2,000 pages — more than 620 pages longer than the government takeover of health care Hillary Clinton proposed in 1993 — is as good an indication as any of just how costly and unsustainable Speaker Pelosi’s proposal is.”
— House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on the health- care bill released yesterday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)