[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14809-14810]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      QUALITY HEALTH CARE COVERAGE

  (Mr. BLUNT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BLUNT. Madam Speaker, earlier this week I talked about the 
principles

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that we need to follow for Americans to have a better health care 
system. The first of those principles was to make quality health care 
coverage affordable and accessible for every American, regardless of 
preexisting conditions.
  Today I want to talk for a minute, now less than a minute, about why 
we need to protect our system from a government-run health care 
alternative. What that alternative would do would eliminate coverage 
for more than 100 million Americans who currently receive their 
coverage through their job. It would limit your choice of doctors and 
medical treatment options, and it would result in the Federal 
Government taking control of health care.
  Yesterday, the American Medical Association embraced all of those 
reasons not to have a public option, not to have a government-run 
option, not to have a government takeover of health care.

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