[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 6, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H1217]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. MURPHY Connecticut asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, when it comes to health care, 
I agree with the President in one respect, it is time to start 
redistributing resources within our health care system. The problem 
comes when we talk about where we bring those resources from.
  The President's plan that he put before us in his State of the Union 
speech and in his budget presented to this House yesterday would take 
resources from families who have good insurance and give it to families 
who have no insurance.
  I would propose instead, and many of my colleagues on this side of 
the aisle would propose instead, that we take resources from the HMOs 
that have enjoyed massive profits off our Medicare systems, to take 
money from the drug companies who have enjoyed the pleasure of not 
having to negotiate with the bulk purchasing power of the Federal 
Government, and redistribute resources from those that are making 
millions of dollars of profit off this system and put those resources 
into the hands of those who have nothing.
  We can agree on some things. We can agree that this health care 
system has to be made better. It is just a matter of where we take and 
who we give it to.

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