[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25388]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 SCHIP

  (Mr. PRICE of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, today the new majority sadly 
declares politics more important than health care for our Nation's 
poorest children. Democrats are moving forward with a massive expansion 
of Washington-run health care under the auspices of helping kids. Yet, 
any honest discussion about this bill reveals that it is clearly less 
about helping children and more about Washington control. You see, they 
think they can make better decisions than you.
  Remarkably, this expansion of bureaucratic health care offers 
taxpayer-funded coverage to people who are neither poor nor children. 
Democrats have made it clear that this bill is just the next step in 
their desired march toward Washington control of health care. And as a 
physician, I have seen how dangerous government control of health care 
can be.
  Rather than forcing bureaucratic-controlled health care upon the 
American people, I urge my colleagues to reject this proposal and 
reauthorize SCHIP in a way that is consistent with its original 
bipartisan intent: helping America's poorest children.

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