[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 24, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2265]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                     PATIENT-CENTERED HEALTH REFORM

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, it is so interesting to be a Member of 
the U.S. House of Representatives at this time. One of the things that 
makes it most interesting is the issues that we have to deal with, and 
it boils down to making choices: what are you going to support and what 
are you going to oppose.
  The Republicans have supported health reform that would be patient 
centered. What we saw transpire in this House last weekend was a bill 
that is government centered and government first. There was a choice of 
how to move forward with health care, and decisions were made. The 
Democrat majority chose to put government at the top of health care 
decisions, government in charge of deciding what kind of health care 
you can access, what kind of insurance product you can buy, what will 
be available to buy by the time we get to the year 2013.
  Those are not decisions that government should make. Those are 
decisions that should be made by individuals, by small businesses, by 
employers. And as our phones continue to ring as people find out more 
and more about the reconciliation bill, they say reconsider, pull the 
bill back and focus on the economy, focus on jobs and get this Nation 
on the right track.

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