[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19565-19566]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         A BIPARTISAN APPROACH TO HEALTH CARE REFORM IS NEEDED

  (Mr. GINGREY of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, Members on both sides of the 
aisle are in favor of health care delivery reform. We want universal 
access. We

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want universal coverage. But what the Democratic majority has given us 
in their rush to get something through this body by the end of the week 
is 1,100 pages of universal nightmare, and this is not what the 
American people want.
  They don't want these long lines, these long queues, this rationing 
of care. They don't want nonelected government bureaucrats telling 
health care providers what they can give and what they can offer and 
what they can prescribe to take care of their patients.
  Mr. Speaker, we can come together in a bipartisan way and rewrite 
this H.R. 3200 and do it for the American people, bring down the cost 
of health care, and promote universal access. That is what we need to 
do. We need to do it in a bipartisan way, and I recommend to the 
Democratic leadership, let's go back to the drawing table.

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