[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19565]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           FIXING HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Now, imagine if you called your 
doctor because you were very sick and immediately he wrote a 
prescription and scheduled you for surgery and sent you on your way. 
And you said, But, Doc, I have got a medical file that is three inches 
thick. It is 1,200 pages long. Don't you want to examine me, read it, 
ask some questions, order some tests? And your doctor says, No, I don't 
have time for this because I am working on a deadline.
  We all need to agree and work together. Our health care system does 
need reform and we want to reform it. Let's work together to fix it, 
not just come up with an arbitrary deadline.
  We have to allow you to buy insurance from anywhere in America, have 
basic plans that cover what families really need and worry about, have 
transparency about quality and cost, and provide some financial 
assistance to those that need it. And, finally, let's make insurance 
personal, portable and permanent.

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