[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 21500-21501]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             CONCERNS WITH GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE PLAN

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, during the August recess, 
I was honored to host the largest congressional townhalls in the 
history of South Carolina: 1,700 people in Columbia; 1,500 in 
Lexington; 1,500 in Beaufort; and 1,200 in Hilton Head. During my 25 
years of serving the public in the State Senate and Congress, I have 
not seen such passionate events full of patriots, 95 percent of whom 
support health insurance reform, but not a government takeover.
  I presented my concerns in a handout with a government-run health 
care plan: $1.6 trillion in costs, 100 million people losing their 
current coverage, $818 billion in taxes, 1.6 million jobs lost, 
according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, and 
rationing of care.
  I presented a better way, the Empowering Patients First Act, 
introduced by the Republican Study Committee led by Dr. Tom Price. It 
provides for portability, keeping current coverage, tax

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incentives to purchase insurance, lower costs through competition, and 
bars government-funded abortions.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the Global War on Terrorism.

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