[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22869]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          NO GOVERNMENT OPTION

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Let me just say as an extension of what we 
were discussing a few minutes ago, the other body, the Senate today 
twice voted down in the Senate Finance Committee the government option 
because they know the American people, by a large majority, does not 
want the government interfering in health care and sticking their nose 
in between a doctor and a patient. That was done in the U.S. Senate 
today.
  And I would just like to say one more thing--this won't take a whole 
minute--and that is seniors of this country, and I've talked to a lot 
of them, they know that they're going to be taking between $500 and 
$600 billion out of Medicare and Medicare Advantage over the next 
decade, which is going to cause the Medicare program to be in worse 
shape than it is already. And the program they're talking about is 
going to result in rationing. It is going to result in problems for 
seniors, and the seniors know it.
  I would just like to end by saying this to my Democrat colleagues: 
They all vote.

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