[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19570-19571]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. FALLIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)

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  Ms. FALLIN. Mr. Speaker, this debate on health care reform is 
probably one of the most important debates this U.S. Congress has had, 
because this debate on health care could move us towards socializing 
our health care system and turning over our personal health to the 
Federal Government to make decisions about our health, and also turning 
over a large portion of our national economy to the Federal Government.
  This debate on health care reform should only be about doing what is 
right for America. And limiting choices on the kind of health care plan 
a citizen of this Nation can have is not right for America. Putting a 
Federal bureaucrat between the patient and the doctor is not right for 
America. Moving 114 million Americans off private insurance on to a 
government socialized plan is not right for America. Exploding our 
deficit with huge, massive new tax increases for a government-run 
health care plan is not right for America.
  We should not be taking away the freedom to control something as 
important as our own personal health care and our outcomes of our 
health care, to the Federal Government. We should not be taking that 
away. Health care reform is about doing the right thing, and it is 
going to be right for Democrats and Republicans to come together to 
reform health care.

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