[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 21802-21803]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                PUTTING PATIENTS AND DOCTORS IN CONTROL

  (Mr. BOUSTANY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOUSTANY. Madam Speaker, last week the President and the 
congressional Democrats began yet another drive to enact their sweeping 
overhaul of American health care, H.R. 3200.
  Following the President's address to Congress, I urged the President 
to work with Republicans to lower the cost of health care for American 
families and small business. Common sense solutions and common ground 
do exist. Let me be clear. We can lower the cost of health care. But a 
new government-run bureaucracy is not the answer.
  The President last week suggested reducing the growing number of 
frivolous lawsuits against doctors as one way to lower costs. Thus far, 
the congressional Democrats' plan still fails to mention medical 
liability reform. Right now, H.R. 3200 fails to meet the President's 
requirements, and it fails to meet the American people's requirements 
too.
  If the President and congressional Democrats are serious about 
working together, we need to start over. We

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need to start over and scrap H.R. 3200. Working together, we can 
achieve real results to lower the cost of health care and increase 
access to a doctor for millions of Americans.

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