[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25791]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         PUBLIC OPTION TRIGGER

  (Mr. CONAWAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, frustrated this summer by diligent and 
watchful Americans, the President, the Speaker and the Senate Majority 
Leader have been unable to create a single-payer health plan, the 
single largest expansion in the cost, size and authority of the Federal 
Government in 70 years. But rather than give up, the Democrat 
leadership have decided to float an idea as a misdirection play to get 
what they want. They call it a trigger; I call it a wolf in sheep's 
clothing.
  While some might argue that a trigger would lower health care costs, 
Americans are awake and watching and they know better. They see this 
wolf and realize that a trigger paves the road toward government 
control of health care and the loss of individual choice of health care 
decisions.
  On this Halloween week, I urge the Speaker to take off the mask of 
reform and focus on health care solutions that don't include the 
government takeover of health care. The American people deserve honesty 
in this debate and won't be scared into supporting a trigger.

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