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




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. ADERHOLT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to make clear that there is not 
anyone in the United States Congress who does not want to make our 
Nation's health care system better. There is bipartisan agreement that 
Congress must help the American people by working to lower the high 
cost of health care and provide access and availability to the American 
people who are uninsured. This is not the time for Congress to rush to 
the President's desk in a reckless manner legislation which would 
amount to nothing short of nationalizing one of the best health care 
systems in the world.
  Make no mistake, there are much-needed reforms that Congress can and 
Congress should address. We must solve this problem in a focused and in 
a bipartisan way and not allow some extreme proposal to make its way to 
the President's desk that will be another massive spending program. 
With Federal spending at the highest level in American history, the 
economy in a severe recession and unemployment rising every day, 
another massive government program with more spending, more borrowing 
and higher taxes will only hurt this struggling economy and the 
American people.

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