[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19392]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, last week the Democrats released a 
thousand-page-plus health care bill that will cost in the order of $1.5 
trillion and will allow for the Federal Government to nationalize 
health care in America. I hope the American people will learn more 
about this bill before it is voted on the House floor here.
  The Federal Government will eventually control almost 20 percent of 
our GDP and will control every single doctor and patient health 
decision that's made in this country.
  It's clear we must reform the country's health care delivery system, 
but in the process of expanding affordable access, we must not create a 
weaker, more expensive system that future generations will have to pay 
for. Eighty-three percent of Americans enjoy the health insurance they 
currently have. We must strengthen and expand our current health care 
system and not destroy it in favor of a $1.5 trillion experiment.

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