[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19560]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. MILLER of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, over the last few weeks, my 
office has been flooded with letters, faxes, phone calls, and e-mails 
from all types of citizens throughout northwest Florida. The messages 
all say the same thing: stop the government takeover of our health care 
system.
  Now, the majority party's proposed legislation costs over $1 
trillion. It would increase the deficit by $240 billion. It would 
actually raise the cost of health care for an American family.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not the way to reform the American health care 
system. Americans want more choices for health care, not fewer choices. 
They want to choose the doctors they see and when they want to see 
them, and they don't want their medical decisions made by a faceless 
bureaucrat here in Washington, D.C. Floridians are not willing to have 
their health care rationed, and they do not want the government 
takeover of health care that the majority in Congress is proposing.

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