[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18485-18486]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          HEALTH CARE PLAN SHOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, on Friday I offered an amendment in the 
Appropriations Committee that failed because every Democrat voted 
against it. The amendment simply stated that Members of Congress and 
the administration should live by the laws they impose on the American 
people.

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  Specifically, if you vote for a government-run health insurance plan, 
you should get a government-run health insurance plan. If it's good 
enough to impose health care rationing on the American people, it's 
certainly good enough for you. Because it's hypocritical to vote for a 
government-run rationed health care plan that will be forced on 
everyone else while retaining a private insurance plan for yourself.
  If Members don't believe they should have to live under the rationed 
health care plan that they're pushing, they should explain why. Kansans 
are upset by the possibility that they're forced on a rationed public 
health care plan by this Congress. They believe if it's not good enough 
for the people who vote for it, it's not good enough for them.
  Mr. Speaker, it's time for us to reform health care by addressing 
defensive medicine costs, by offering market-based principles for 
health care, and by keeping patients and doctors in control, not 
Washington bureaucrats.

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