[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22155]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  SCHIP MAKES TITANIC WRECK LOOK SMALL

  (Mr. AKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. AKIN. Madam Speaker, we can all think of instances where some 
great calamity was about to happen, and yet we have to stand by 
powerless to help; like the pilot of the Titanic, he sees the glacier 
emerging through the midst, he spins the wheel too late. And that is 
the case this morning, not with a steamship but with SCHIP, the State 
Children's Health Insurance Plan.
  It doesn't take any towering intellect to see the problems. We're 
going to vote to tax Americans with private health insurance, and we're 
going to take the benefits away from older Americans, with their 
Medicare, and we're going to give that money to give free health 
insurance to children with families making more than $80,000, children 
of illegal immigrants.
  All of history suggests that socialized medicine is not the way to 
go, and yet the Democrats are about to vote for something which will 
make the Titanic wreck look small.

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