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Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) made the following statement today on the six month anniversary of President Obama’s and House and Senate Democrats’ health care bill being signed into law.

“As a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a committee with jurisdiction over health care issues in the United States, I am extremely troubled that six months after this bill was signed into law, we have yet to hold one hearing on the oversight and implementation of this government takeover of our nation’s health care system.  We know that this legislation will cost more than the original estimates, as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Studies (CMS) recently reported that this health care bill will grow national health spending by a projected 6.3 percent a year through 2019 and total health care spending will hit $4.6 trillion by 2019. Additionally, it has been reported that there will be at least 159 new boards, bureaucracies and programs written into the law.
 
Even though Speaker Pelosi said in March that Democrats had to pass the health care bill ‘so that you can find out what is in it,’ oversight of the sprawling, 2,700-page measure has been largely nonexistent.  The American people deserve to know exactly how the $2.6 trillion health care law is being implemented, and how their hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being spent.”