[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H8902-H8903]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       ADVICE FROM A SURGEON REGARDING GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California. Last week, I received a letter from 
a constituent, Dr. Harry Levine, who was a surgeon in the U.S. and 
Canada for 60 years. Dr. Levine said, ``As a surgeon who worked in 
Canada and the U.S. for 60 years with two of the highest degrees in the 
world of surgery''--he was a fellow in the Royal College of Surgery in 
Canada, in the United States he serves as a diplomat on both the 
American Board of Surgery and the National Board of Medical Examiners--
``I have unparalleled experience in all levels of society, from 
grinding dirt-level poverty to the most privileged. Please take this 
advice from me. This medical insurance program now up for a vote in 
Washington will be nothing short of a national calamity in every 
respect involving everyone and sparing no one. I cannot stress to you 
the extent to which chaos, illness, and needless death will befall 
everyone.''
  According to Dr. Levine, under government-run health care, people 
become numbers and lose their identity--

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you're a pest, not a patient. Don't take my word for it, ask your 
doctor. Ask them how government-run health care will change your life 
or shorten it.

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