[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21217]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              UTOPIAN ILLUSION: GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, my grandmother used to say ``If you 
have your health, you have everything.'' Health is a personal and 
private matter with people. Individuals want to control who their 
doctor is. Now we are embarked upon a new philosophy regarding health 
care.
  The government thinks it knows better how to take care of Americans 
than individuals do. Kind of like the sarcastic statement, ``We're from 
the government, we're here to help you.''
  More government intrusion into personal lives alarms and scares 
people, especially seniors. They are afraid that additional government 
control of health care will take their personal choices away and give 
decisions and power to unelected, unaccountable 23-year-old bureaucrats 
in Washington, D.C. Frankly, many of my neighbors in Texas don't have 
the confidence that big government can provide better quality of health 
for this Nation.
  People are also worried about the billions of dollars to pay for this 
utopian illusion: money that will have to be borrowed, then paid back 
in more taxes. The people I represent think this new plan will make 
matters worse. Sort of like what my grandmother also said, ``If you 
think the problems government creates are bad, just wait until you see 
government solutions.''
  And that's just the way it is.

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