[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 19666-19667]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER WILL RUIN HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, think about it--
government-run health care.
  Now, the argument being made by my friends on the other side is that 
the only reason it hasn't worked everywhere it has been tried is that 
the right people aren't in charge. Think about that. It has never 
worked anywhere. It doesn't work.
  An individual I represent, who lives in Mission Viejo, was a doctor 
for 60 years in the United States and in Canada. He holds two of the 
highest degrees in medicine. He said it not only

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hurts the poor; it hurts the wealthy, it hurts everybody. If you want 
to ruin health care, have the government take it over.
  Now, the argument is we'll just have the government compete with the 
private sector. Think about that. Where does the government get the 
money? From you--the taxpayers--and the private sector has to charge 
people to provide health care. There is no way in the world the private 
sector can compete with government when the government is funded by 
unlimited amounts of money that they extort from you, the working 
people.
  If you want health care in this country to be of quality and to be 
good, there are things we can do, but don't destroy it by turning it 
over to the government. The government does very few things well. In 
fact, my colleagues complain about the way the government even handles 
wars. That's the one thing we can do in a quality fashion, but 
government-run health care is not something we want to turn over to the 
government.

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