[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22969]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                THE PEOPLE WILL LIKE HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank one of our Republican 
colleagues. You see, I've been wondering how on the one hand the 
Republicans could try to scare our senior citizens with some 
nonexistent threat to their government program, Medicare, and on the 
other hand try to scare the rest of the American people about the 
threat of another government program, the public insurance option.
  Well, yesterday Senator John Ensign answered that question for me. 
Before the Senate Finance Committee, he said that he's opposing the 
public option because--get this--``People will like it.'' I kid you 
not. I wonder if, in fact, what he would rather do is give the American 
people a health care system they don't like. I know that many of our 
Republican colleagues would consider it a tragedy if we did something 
in this Congress that would actually restore confidence in government 
in the American people, but the real tragedy will be if we don't give 
the American people the health care system they want and deserve.

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