[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  LET'S MOVE FORWARD ON A JOB AGENDA FOR AMERICANS, NOT AN AGENDA OF 
                       GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. CAMPBELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Speaker, it seems that the Democrat majority in 
this town is determined to install a government-run health care system 
which will be costly, inefficient, and provide bad care. We all know 
that.
  I happen to support something that's directionally opposite to that, 
something called the Patients' Choice Act, which, instead of putting 
new bureaucracies in between people and their doctors, it would 
eliminate some of the existing bureaucracies and get employers and the 
government out of the way between people and their doctors so that they 
can control their own health care.
  But you know what? As important as the health care debate is here, do 
you know what people in America want right now? Jobs. They want jobs. 
And if there is one thing this plan that the Democrats are proposing 
will do, it will cost even more Americans their jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, I would ask you and I would ask the President where are 
the jobs you promised? Let's move forward in America on a job agenda, 
not an agenda of government-run health care.

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