[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25788]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, if we were really debating health care, you 
could wonder if some of these things could be said with a straight 
face.
  This isn't about health care; it's about control. Who's going to 
control these decisions? This entire debate could be put on a bumper 
sticker that says, simply, ``Who Decides?'' The majority wants 
Washington decisions and we want individual decisions.
  Mrs. Clinton summed it up best 15 years ago in the last health care 
debate. She said, We can't trust the American people to make these 
decisions.
  But the majority can't keep their hands off this trillion dollar 
decision; so they put into one of the bills things like $1.6 billion 
for streetlights. How many people are going to get insured with that? 
Or $10 billion to shore up union--their friends--insurance funds? I 
wonder how many people are going to get insured with that. Or the 
payoff to the trial lawyers, who cause us to spend $200 billion a year 
in defensive medicine to prevent being sued, who's helping them?
  Mr. Speaker, this is about control.

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