[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18042]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULDN'T RATION HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Madam Speaker, it is interesting 
to sit here on the floor and listen to my colleagues from the other 
side describe their health care bill. It's going to solve everything. 
The only thing they haven't said is it's going to have a solution for 
cancer overnight and every other disease known to man.
  And I thought, where have we heard this kind of promise before? How 
far back do we have to go? And then I realized it was the stimulus 
package. We were told we had to vote for the stimulus package on the 
President's timeline, and they guaranteed us unemployment wouldn't go 
above 8 or 8.5 percent. They guaranteed us all these jobs would be 
created. They guaranteed us that government solution.
  Well, we've seen what's happened, and now we're hearing the same 
thing on health care. Well, just remember what the President said when 
he was in Michigan recently and someone asked him a question about 
their 100-year-old mother who received a pacemaker. He asked, Under 
your system, what would happen? And the President's response was, Well, 
boy, that's a tough question; you might just have to give her pain 
pills.
  That sounds like rationing to me. I'm not sure I want the Federal 
Government to tell me I should take a pain pill when I need some 
surgery.

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