[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[House]
[Pages 24963-24964]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              MEDICARE PATIENTS WILL LOSE QUALITY OF CARE

  (Mr. BROUN of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I practiced medicine, general 
medicine, in the State of Georgia for almost four decades. The American 
people need to understand if the House bill or the Senate bill is 
passed into law, my patients and physicians like me all across this 
Nation are not going

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to be able to give the kind of health care to their patients that they 
are today.
  Medicare patients are going to lose the quality of care that they are 
getting today. Tens of thousands of people are going to lose their 
private insurance. The cost is going to go up for everybody in this 
country.
  The quality of care is going to go down. It's going to be too costly. 
We are going to be all forced on the government bureaucrat-run health 
care system, and the American people need to know that, Madam Speaker.

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