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




                        AMERICANS DESERVE BETTER

  (Mr. TIBERI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, we have before us this week, maybe, H.R. 
3200, the health care reform bill. Those of us on this side of the 
aisle are for health care reform. We believe there are many who need 
insurance, many who need reduced costs for health insurance. Mr. 
Speaker, this isn't it. In fact, the President is fond of saying, if 
you have it and you like it, you can keep it. Not true.
  On pages 16 and 17--and I would encourage the President to read pages 
16 and 17, in fact, the entire bill--and he will see that we take a 
hatchet to private insurance, to employer health care, and, in fact, 
the Congressional Budget Office Director, a Democrat, said that the 
President not only doesn't bend the curve to reduce health costs, we 
increase it. And we create a $200 billion deficit. Americans deserve 
better, Mr. Speaker. They deserve a better bill than this one.

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