[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18496]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           LET'S DO IT RIGHT

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, while our Nation is 
facing record unemployment, we may well worsen the job situation if the 
proposed health care bill passes in its current version; 4.7 million 
more jobs are estimated to be lost and a trillion dollars in more 
taxes. That's bad medicine.
  We still have not addressed the hundreds of billions in health care 
waste, but are proposing spending hundreds of billions more. We should 
not be substituting the barriers, burdens and, bureaucracy of insurance 
companies with the barriers, burdens, and bureaucracy of Uncle Sam's 
health insurance company.
  I want to get people back to work. I want to make sure they're 
covered by health care. I want our Committee on Energy and Commerce to 
reconvene to get to work on this bill. It is going to take time. We 
need to take the time to fix this. Let's do it right. But let's not 
work towards artificial deadlines, and let's get America back to work 
with good health care.

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