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




      GIVE AMERICANS A HEALTH CARE PLAN THAT WON'T MAKE THEM SICK

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, the latest numbers we have are for 2007. 
You divide the total number of households in America into the total 
amount of money spent on Medicare and Medicaid, it is $9,200 for every 
household in America.
  We are not getting our money's worth with this government-run health 
care. And now the President wants to spend another $1 trillion? Well, 
there is a Republican plan that we can't get from legislative counsel 
to bring to the floor or even have CBO score it that would say, you 
know what? For the first time ever, we are going to give senior 
citizens complete control of their health care. We are going to give 
them cash money in a health savings account they control with a debit 
card, not the government, not an insurance company, and then we will 
buy them the best private insurance you can have for everything above 
that.
  That gives them complete coverage; no wrap-arounds they have to buy, 
no surplus insurance. That is a plan that won't make America sick.

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