[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19551]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           TORT REFORM NEEDED TO PRODUCE HEALTH CARE SAVINGS

  (Mr. ROYCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Speaker, tort reform would create tens of billions in 
health care savings. There is no reform of the insane cost and 
arbitrary rewards of our malpractice system in this bill, because 
lawyers on the other side won't allow that in the bill.
  Instead, according to the Congressional Budget Office, we have the 
Democrat proposal, with its public option, which will increase costs in 
excess of $1 trillion and will cover millions of individuals here 
illegally, which will drive additional illegal immigration and will 
drive future costs for health care in this country.
  With the subsidized public option and existing businesses shifting 
out of their current plans into this subsidized public option, as many 
as 114 million individuals could lose their current insurance, leading 
to Federal bureaucrats, not patients and doctors, making important 
decisions about their treatment options.
  I urge we revisit this proposal.

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