[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25777]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  FUTURE ACCESS TO QUALITY HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. SESSIONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the looming health 
care debate here in Washington, D.C.
  The American people know the truth about the Democrat health care 
proposal. We know that it's full of mandates, full of taxes, and will 
result in further job losses, but it also cuts reimbursement to 
physicians and hospitals and creates an even larger access problem.
  In the proposed health care reforms, congressional Democrats are 
racing to create an unsustainable government-run health care plan that 
would reimburse physicians and hospitals no more than 30 to 60 percent 
of market rates.
  Public safety-net hospitals like Parkland Hospital--which serves as a 
critical health care provider to many in Dallas, Texas--need to keep 
their doors open to make this plan successful. My Republican colleagues 
and I believe that we need to guarantee physicians and hospitals 
adequate reimbursement for their services to ensure the American people 
have access to a delivery system that works--not mandates, not taxes, 
and not job losses.

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