[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19572]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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              THE DEMOCRAT PLAN DOESN'T REFORM HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, we need to reform health care in 
this country, but the Democratic plan doesn't do that. The Democratic 
health bill doesn't reduce costs or inefficiency. In fact, it increases 
taxes by over $1 trillion, and it cuts provider payments substantially. 
Indeed, it forces tens of millions of people off of the private plans 
that they're satisfied with into a government-run plan. In fact, it 
creates 53 new Federal agencies or boards, tripling the size of the 
current government health care system. That is not a move in the right 
direction.
  Is this plan good enough for Democratic leadership? Apparently not.
  In the Ways and Means Committee, we offered amendments to mandate 
that all Members of Congress would have to be under the government-run 
plan. The response from Democratic leadership was that that wouldn't be 
fair to the families of Congressmen. Well, I've got something to say to 
this, Mr. Speaker. If it's not fair to the families of Congressmen, 
it's not fair to Americans who work hard and who actually pay their 
taxes to be forced into something like this.
  What we need is a real plan with real reforms that the American 
people will accept and that will address their needs.

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