[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19575-19576]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         DO NOT PASS THIS BILL

  (Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. You know, people come to the U.S. from all 
points of the globe to get the medical treatment that America is best 
at all across the world. It's the best system

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ever invented, and we've evolved it over these 200-plus years.
  This experiment that the Obama administration is pushing the Congress 
to pass would rip out that system and put in its place what I think 
would be an inferior system. People don't understand why we need to do 
it. And, in fact, we don't have to do it.
  Our proposal is essentially three things that would allow us to keep 
this great medical system that we have, bring down the costs and make 
it affordable to everyone. We would allow small companies to form co-
ops and bargain for their insurance coverage, much the same as the 
Kentucky Farm Bureau does in Kentucky even today. We would do away with 
junk lawsuits that drive up the cost of practice and cause doctors to 
perform very expensive defensive medicine.
  Do not pass this bill.

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