[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19561]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to 
the Democrat majority's government-run health care plan. That is a 
phrase that the Speaker of the House does not want us to use. She's 
told us we can't use it in our mail. We're supposed to use the ``public 
option.''
  Well, to use the word that the President apparently likes, the 
American people aren't stupid. They know it's government-run health 
insurance, and they don't want it. They know the Democrat majority 
proposes to cut costs by rationing care by deciding whether or not you 
get to go to the doctor, which doctor you get to go to; if you need a 
specialist, which specialist you need to go to, when you need to go; if 
you need surgery, when you get to go, if you get to go.
  And most importantly, end-of-life care for our seniors. The 
government wants to decide whether or not certain seniors will get 
procedures they need to enhance their quality of life and whether or 
not the computer model determines that that's not the highest and best 
use of their health care dollars.
  American people don't want that. They want real reform just like the 
Republicans do. We want to have cost control, we want quality, we want 
access with real reform like tort reform.

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