[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25792]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         REFORM HEALTH CARE NOW

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, the President said our 
health care is too costly. I agree. But the Democrat plan doesn't 
reform or eliminate the $1 trillion in waste. So you will pay more--not 
just your children or your grandchildren, but you. How? Their plan has 
a wheelchair tax, a hospital bed tax, asthma device tax, artificial hip 
tax. Diabetes supplies, medicines, home oxygen equipment, all taxed. 
Have a heart attack? There's taxes on heart monitors, heart valves and 
pacemakers. Have health insurance? They tax you if you have it and tax 
you if you don't. Employer paid insurance? They tax them if they will 
and they tax them if they won't. States can opt out of the government-
run plan, but you still have to pay the taxes. It's taxation without 
hospitalization.
  Let's reform Medicare. Reform Medicaid. Reform health care. Cut the 
waste. Improve quality. Let people buy across State lines, join groups, 
make insurance personal, portable, permanent. Millions of Americans are 
begging us to fix the problems, not finance the problem. Millions of 
Americans can't all be wrong.

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