[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14079]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (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, Republicans stand for health care reform, 
and there are a number of things that we think should be a part of it.
  Number 1, we want good intelligence. We want high technology so that 
Americans can figure out what are the best procedures, who are the best 
doctors, who are the best providers, and what are the best prices. We 
think we should take advantage of all the IT that is out there.
  Number 2, we want medical savings accounts. We believe that the 
market should be put into action so that people can save money and be 
incentivized to put some of that money in their pocket if they don't 
spend it by the end of the day.
  Number 3, we don't believe that health care decisions should be made 
by insurance companies, HMOs or Washington bureaucrats.
  Number 4, we believe there should be less frivolous lawsuits. We 
certainly want to protect the tort laws in America, but we don't want 
frivolous lawsuits.
  Number 5, we believe the patient-doctor relationship should be 
preserved and that we should not have a Brit-
ish-, Canadian- or German-style centralized government planning where 
the doctor-patient relationship is destroyed.

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