[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25785]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. ALEXANDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has 
included an opt-out plan into this health care plan. We all know that 
it is still just a government-run plan that's going to require a vote 
of the legislature.
  Now, do we really think that the Governor and the legislature are 
going to vote for a plan that opts them out of the plan but yet 
requires the taxpayers of that State to pay for that plan? Why, of 
course not.
  Whether it's opt-out, opt-in, trigger plan--whatever it's called--
it's still a government-run plan that's going to create an unfair 
advantage for the government against private insurance, causing many 
people to lose their plans.
  I am not going to vote for a plan that raises taxes, that cuts 
benefits or that drives a Washington bureaucrat between the patients 
whom I represent and the physicians.

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