[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19555]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   DEMOCRATIC PLAN: CHOICE, AFFORDABILITY, LOWER COST AND LOWER TAXES

  (Mr. WEINER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WEINER. Ladies and gentlemen, you are going to hear a lot of 
people that are opposed to the Democratic plan to reform health care, 
and a lot of them are on this side of the House of Representatives. 
Why? They already have health care. They've got a pretty good plan, 
like all other Federal employees. They have choice already.
  If you want to make a phone call, Mr. Speaker, dial 202-224-3121 and 
ask for your Congressman and say, Will you give up your health plan? 
You've got choice already. And some of them are old enough to have 
Medicare, which is, that's right, a government-run plan. Are you 
prepared to give up that? I don't believe that they are.
  The fact of the matter is that some in the Republic Party don't want 
these problems fixed because they are already doing just fine. They've 
got choice, they've got the Federal plan--that I have, by the way--they 
have Medicare, a government-run plan, and the rest of the country can 
be damned.
  Well, we in the Democratic Party are saying something else. We want 
the American people to get at least as good as my friends in the 
Republic Party have. We want at least the benefits that we have here in 
Congress--choice, affordability, lower cost and lower taxes for all 
Americans. That is the Democratic plan.

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