[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 110 (Tuesday, July 21, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8431]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    HEALTH CARE REFORM MUST TARGET ACCESS TO QUALITY AFFORDABLE CARE

  (Mr. BOOZMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. Speaker, we must reform health care. Too many 
Americans do not have access to quality, affordable health care. 
Instead of resolving these problems, however, the President prescribes 
an overhaul that will deny Americans treatments they need and make them 
wait to get treatments that a new health care commissioner allows.
  This is not the way to reform our health care system, and my 
constituents agree. I've received many calls and letters from 
Arkansans, like Michael who recently told me he owes his life to the 
fact that we don't have a system like the British-run government health 
structure that is being hastily proposed.
  In 2007, Michael was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, something 
he's sure his doctor would not have caught had he had his hands tied in 
red tape health procedures. He owes his life to the care we were able 
to give through a free-market system.
  We cannot rush through legislation that will have serious 
implications on care Americans like Michael receive. We need to take a 
reasonable amount of time to listen to the concerns of Americans like 
Michael and craft a commonsense bill that addresses the real problems.

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