[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 39 (Thursday, March 5, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H2985]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, today the White House 
convenes a forum on health care, and we do need health care reform. We 
have the best health care available in the world, but it's just too 
expensive for too many. Why?
  A brand new report from the New England Health Care Institute stated 
that in our $2.3 trillion health care system, a full 30 percent of 
total spending could be eliminated without reducing health care 
quality. This is a savings of $800 billion; savings that comes from 
improving the quality of care, savings from eliminating misuse of drugs 
and less effective treatments. And we can find even more savings from 
stopping Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
  We can make quality health care affordable and accessible. Let us 
work together for true reform. Let's fix it and make it better, not 
finance a broken system. Reform is the best medicine.

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