[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1460]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. We live in a very dysfunctional time. We have heard a 
parade of speakers come to the microphones here in the well of the 
House and say they stand on the side of the American people. Yet in my 
44 years of life, I have never stood on the side of someone who 
disagrees with me so vehemently.
  Overlooking it is a fundamental proposition. The Democratic Party 
believes that you can take an imperfect health care system and fix it 
by putting it under the most dysfunctional and broken entity in the 
United States today. It is called the Federal Government. That 
proposition is insane. The reality is they do not stand with the 
American people. They stand for Big Government making decisions in your 
lives.
  We trust the American people, and we will not turn the intimate 
decisions between you and your doctor over to some Federal bureaucrat. 
We will leave it in your hands, and we will empower patient-centered 
wellness and free market reforms if given the chance and a real vote.

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