[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19556-19557]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                   A MISGUIDED HEALTH CARE EXPERIMENT

  (Mr. BILIRAKIS asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to strongly oppose efforts 
by the majority to rush through this Chamber a misguided health care 
experiment that will cost jobs and put the government in charge of 
health care. The Democrats' bill will tax small businesses, raise 
already sky-high unemployment in my State, and cut health care for 
seniors to pay for government-run health care. This will limit consumer 
choices, lower quality, increase wait times and imperil the doctor-
patient relationship by empowering Federal bureaucrats to make health 
care decisions. The trillion-and-a-half pricetag will increase the 
already crushing debt some in Congress have been piling on our children 
and grandchildren over my objections.

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  The best way to help expand health coverage to the uninsured is to 
make health care more affordable. Two of the easiest and most effective 
ways to do that would be to encourage preventive care and enact medical 
liability reform. I urge my colleagues to reject this government 
takeover of health care.

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