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




               INITIATE REAL DEBATE ON HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. CALVERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, right now we are debating one of the most 
important issues facing our country today, health care reform. There is 
no doubt that our current system must be reformed.
  Unfortunately, rather than conducting a meaningful debate on how to 
improve access and quality and lower the cost of health care, the 
majority is making deals behind closed doors and going through the 
yellow pages to figure out who they can tax in order to pay for the $1 
trillion bill they propose.
  The majority asserts that their bill will insure more people, but the 
cost to America will not only be in dollars and cents; the bill will 
dramatically alter our health care, which is 20 percent of our economy, 
through the creation of a government-run public option. For those with 
private insurance in the short time before they are forced into a 
public plan, a government plan will still dictate what government 
service they can and cannot have.
  This is unacceptable. The only people in the room making health care 
decisions should be you and your doctor, not a Washington bureaucrat.
  I urge my colleagues to reject this misguided and dangerous proposal 
and initiate a real debate on health care reform.

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