[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19558]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1345
             WHO DO YOU TRUST MORE, POLITICIANS OR DOCTORS?

  (Mr. JORDAN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. JORDAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, last week at the President's press 
conference, the American people got a firsthand glimpse of the attitude 
they can expect if, in fact, there is a Federal takeover of health 
care.
  When the President made this incredible statement, when he said in 
that press conference that some doctors will take out a child's tonsils 
not because it's in the best interest of that patient but because they 
make more money, it makes you think about this:
  If you go out and talk to any 100 people across this country and ask 
them the question, ``Who do you trust more, politicians or your 
doctors?'' my guess is 100 percent of them would say their doctors. Yet 
the President made that statement.
  What we need in this health care debate and what we need in health 
care reform is a model that says that you and your family and your 
doctor will make your health care decisions, not some Federal board in 
Washington that thinks they're all-knowing.

                          ____________________