[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16926]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, Democrats in Washington are pushing hard for a 
government takeover of health care. The result will be devastating for 
patients across the country.
  In countries that already have government-run health care, like 
Britain and Canada, bureaucrats are put in charge of intimate health 
care decisions and critical care is denied.
  Look at the story of one woman from Great Britain, Sarah Anderson. 
Her father suffers from a kidney tumor that could be treated by a drug 
approved throughout most of Europe. But, sadly, Britain's National 
Health Service is denying Sarah's father this lifesaving treatment.
  This case is not unique as patients across Great Britain are denied 
the care they need by the government's health care service. In much of 
Canada, patients are even banned from paying for private health care.
  The Democrats' health care reform would be a bad prescription for the 
American people.
  Republicans have a better health care reform that provides high-
quality health care coverage to every American and that doesn't put 
bureaucrats between patients and the care they need.

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