[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18503-18504]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      AMERICA DEMANDS REAL REFORM

  (Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, it's an outrage the way health 
care is being approached in this country. Voters did vote for change; 
but, apparently, that's all they're going to have left in their pocket.
  I sat through a 17-hour markup on the Ways and Means Committee last 
week, and I didn't see one constructive process. I didn't see the 
voices of Democrats and Republicans heard on addressing the delivery 
system for Medicare to re-engineer it to reduce billions of dollars in 
cost.

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  Instead of reforming the private insurance industry that many of us 
want to do on both sides, Speaker Pelosi's response to that and the 
Democratic response to that is we'll legislate them out of business by 
undercutting them with a Medicare-like system which will punish rural 
America.
  And finally, egregiously, there's been no addressing of liability 
reform that punishes our doctors and health care providers with junk 
lawsuits.
  America demands real reform. We want real reform. Slow this thing 
down and give account to America for the kind of health care people 
need and want and that's affordable and accessible and not a 
government-run plan.

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