[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 26, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H2684]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      OBAMACARE HAS BEEN A FAILURE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, so here we go again. Yet another change, 
another modification in ObamaCare, another deadline extended. I don't 
understand it. If there was such a clamor for socialized medicine, why 
aren't people standing in droves to sign up for ObamaCare?
  I can tell you why. Because it has not decreased their premium, it 
has not increased their quality, and it has not increased access to 
health care. ObamaCare has been a failure.
  We need to replace it with market-driven, patient-centered health 
care where the doctor and the patient are in charge of health care. We 
need to have health care that gives consumers options and health 
savings accounts so that they have more choices and they can pocket 
whatever savings they create. We need to allow consumers to buy health 
care across State lines so that there will be more competition. We need 
to allow small businesses to band together so that they can get the 
economies of scale that large businesses get. And we need to push back 
on frivolous lawsuits so that doctors aren't practicing defensive 
medicine.
  Mr. Speaker, these are things we can do that will make health care 
increase in quality and go down in price.

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