[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 111 (Wednesday, July 22, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8569]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1945

  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Let me just close our hour here with a 
quick story.
  A guy came to me at one of the supermarket office hours that I hold. 
He's a wallpaper hanger. He lost his job, and he's got diabetes. He 
can't afford his medication. He's just waiting for the day when he gets 
so sick that he's going to end up in the emergency room, cost his 
family a fortune, go into bankruptcy, and have their lives forever 
altered. We've got to have an answer for that guy and his family.
  And over the course of the next weeks and months, it's time for this 
Congress to step up to the plate and get health care for this country.
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. If I could add one thing.
  So the American people, every time our friends on the other side sold 
something to the American people when they were in charge, it was fear-
based. You know, it was fear. We have to implement this policy. Here's 
the fear, we have to implement this policy. Here's the fear, we have to 
implement this policy. And so the only play in their playbook they have 
is to try to scare the American people. And now they're trying to do it 
again.
  Big government-run health care plan. Not true. You're going to lose 
your choice. Not true. You are going to have more choices. Everyone is 
going to be forced, 100 million people forced into this public option. 
That's not true. Even the CBO, which is nonpartison, says maybe 10 
million people will access the public option. There will be an increase 
in the employer-based. All of these things aren't true.
  So I think it's important, as we close out, to say when you hear the 
fear, you know some bad policy is tracking right behind it.
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. I thank my colleagues for the time. We 
will be back here as soon as we can to continue to push forward.
  With that, I yield back the balance of our time.

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