[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 129 (Monday, September 14, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H9447]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CONCERNS WITH GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE PLAN

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, during the August recess, 
I was honored to host the largest congressional townhalls in the 
history of South Carolina: 1,700 people in Columbia; 1,500 in 
Lexington; 1,500 in Beaufort; and 1,200 in Hilton Head. During my 25 
years of serving the public in the State Senate and Congress, I have 
not seen such passionate events full of patriots, 95 percent of whom 
support health insurance reform, but not a government takeover.
  I presented my concerns in a handout with a government-run health 
care plan: $1.6 trillion in costs, 100 million people losing their 
current coverage, $818 billion in taxes, 1.6 million jobs lost, 
according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, and 
rationing of care.
  I presented a better way, the Empowering Patients First Act, 
introduced by the Republican Study Committee led by Dr. Tom Price. It 
provides for portability, keeping current coverage, tax incentives to 
purchase insurance, lower costs through competition, and bars 
government-funded abortions.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th and the Global War on Terrorism.

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