[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8911]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


 A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE PLAN WILL LIMIT THE CARE THAT AMERICANS 
                              CAN RECEIVE

  (Mrs. MYRICK asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, I am a 9-year breast cancer survivor, and I 
believe that I'm alive today because I was able to access and get the 
early diagnostic tests that I needed.
  In 1999 I knew something was wrong and I went to five doctors, had 
three mammograms, and they all said you're okay. Finally the sixth 
doctor said, Let's do an ultrasound. He found my cancer. Otherwise, who 
knows what would have happened?
  Under a government health care system like they have in the U.K. and 
in Canada, I really wouldn't have had that opportunity to get those 
tests so quickly and they may have found out too late.
  Survival rates for cancer in countries that have government systems 
are much lower. In the U.K. breast cancer survivor rates are 11 percent 
lower than they are here in the United States.
  So we need to look at sensible policies. We need to not be creating a 
huge new program for health care that only limits the care that not 
only cancer patients but all Americans receive.

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