[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19552]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                ACHIEVING MEANINGFUL HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. WITTMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WITTMAN. Mr. Speaker, as I traveled throughout my district this 
past weekend, from Middlesex to Caroline to Fredericksburg, the one 
thing I heard from folks is they are deeply concerned about the health 
care reform package that we have before us.
  They said, Rob, we see that there is a problem and we need to do 
something, but we need to do the right thing. We need to take the time 
to make sure that we craft solutions that control costs, that maintain 
the relationship between patients and their doctors, to make sure that 
we keep what is good and what works about this system and we work on 
those things that are broken.
  I hear many ideas from both sides of the aisle that I think 
accomplish that, and I think it is high time for the majority to make 
sure that they incorporate ideas from the minority which I believe we 
have in common to make sure we come up with reasonable, practical, 
workable solutions for the American people to make sure that we have 
that access to quality health care reform here in the United States 
that I know we can achieve.

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