[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25783]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. ROE of Tennessee asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROE of Tennessee. As a physician with over 30 years experience in 
treating patients, I came to Washington to participate in the great 
health care debate. Everyone in this Chamber agrees, we need health 
care reform. I will tell you, to be the first, I want to opt out of the 
public option. We've tried that in Tennessee, and it was a fiscal 
disaster. Costs tripled in less than 10 years, quality decreased, and 
access decreased.
  What are we going to do? We're going to take $400 billion to $500 
billion away from our senior citizens' health care while in 2011, we're 
going to add 3 million to 3.5 million baby boomers each year. That's 30 
million more people. Guess what: They can do the math. Decreased 
access, decreased quality, and increased costs will be the result of 
this right here.
  Americans should ask themselves one question at the end of the day: 
When this huge, 1,000-page, incomprehensible bill, which I've read 
every page of, comes to fruition, will the health care that I get and 
my family gets and that my doctor is able to provide for me, will it 
improve? The answer is ``no.''

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