[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 162 (Tuesday, November 3, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H12225]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. PETRI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, health care reform is important, but it 
shouldn't come at the expense of the public's number one concern: the 
gut-punch of joblessness. The massive plans now under consideration 
threaten to disrupt one-sixth of our economy through tax hikes and 
punishing regulations. This is all in the service of a health care bill 
that is a budgetary train wreck. This bill forces drastic changes on a 
deeply divided public. It promises radical government intrusion in 
every sector of health care. It will have the effect of breaking the 
President's promise that you can keep what you have. It will not bend 
the cost curve down. It will burden the States with huge new mandates. 
It will send insurance premiums through the roof. It cuts Medicare, 
seriously threatening popular Medicare Advantage plans; it allows for 
government funding of abortion; and there is no real liability reform.
  We need health care reform, but we can do better than this. We must 
do better than this.

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