[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18500]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    AGENCIES, PROGRAMS, AND COMMISSIONS BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR DOCTOR

  (Mr. BRADY of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of people in Texas 
who are worried what kinds of jobs they will have when this new 
government-run health care plan goes through Congress, 1,018 pages 
delivered to us a few minutes before midnight. We had until 9 o'clock 
to read it and start voting on it.
  Here's the plan: Thirty-one new Federal agencies, programs, and 
commissions in between you and your doctor taking away control of your 
health care.
  At the committee, we asked, What does all this cost? They said, We 
don't know the price tag. We offered amendments. We said, Can you 
certify that Members of Congress read this bill and let the public read 
it? They said they thought that was a bad idea. We asked about 
rationing.
  We were worried about wait times for family physicians and second-
class cancer treatment. They said that would be too inconvenient to 
provide information, and they defeated it.
  Then finally we said, Let's strike the taxes on small businesses, and 
they refused to, saying small businesses have it so easy, they need to 
raise taxes on them.
  Ladies and gentlemen, we don't want the government telling us what 
doctors we can see, what treatments we can receive, and what medicines 
we can receive.

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