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




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. BISHOP of Utah asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Over 200 years ago, the Founding Fathers foresaw 
the health care problems that we have today and they proposed a 
solution. We call it federalism. See, if something has to be done the 
same way at the same time by everybody, only the government can do it. 
But if you want creativity or to take into account different 
circumstances for justice, then States are, as Louis Brandeis said, the 
``laboratory of democracy.''
  My State of Utah has instituted a health care reform the right way 
based on consumer choice and options where business has stable cost, 
workers have affordable portable options, and it's designed for the 
demographics of Utah. But if the Pelosi bill or the Baucus bill were to 
be passed the way they are written today, that State innovation is 
destroyed.
  All solutions and intellect are not here in this city. Creative 
solutions can happen when the Federal Government gets off the backs of 
individuals with their mandates and regulations and out of their 
pockets with their taxes; then real people have the ability to find 
truly creative solutions if we, the Congress, let them.

                          ____________________