[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19574-19575]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM

  (Mr. ROONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROONEY. Mr. Speaker, you know, with all of the talk of health 
care reform over the last several weeks, we haven't heard anything from 
the majority with regard to medical malpractice reform. This is kind of 
interesting because if any of you actually walk into a doctor's office 
across the country and ask them what's the one thing that could really 
help with health care in this country with costs and care and coverage, 
they would say medical malpractice reform.
  Today across this country, doctors do not look at patients as 
patients. They look at them as future lawsuits. If we aren't careful, 
this country won't have doctors anymore because anybody that's 
interested in going to med school will go to law school.
  The government takeover of health care fails to address the concerns 
of the

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people that we really should listen to the most, and that's the 
doctors.

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