[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25793]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, the people in Texas that I represent 
oppose the Pelosi-Obama government takeover health care bill by a 
margin of 77 percent because we understand in Texas that our health 
care system needs a tune-up, not a trade-in. We need to focus, as the 
conservative minority has, on reducing the cost of health insurance and 
making it affordable and portable.
  We, in the conservative minority, the temporary minority, have 
authored legislation that will make insurance portable across State 
lines, that will bring down the cost of health insurance by enacting 
tort reforms nationwide to protect doctors from frivolous litigation as 
we did in Texas. In Texas, we adopted tort reform, and the cost of 
health insurance dropped for all Texans, and about 400,000 additional 
Texans got health insurance who could not before.
  We need to make sure that the greatest health care system ever 
created in the history of the world is protected, that we protect the 
doctor-patient relationship. Let's focus on reducing the cost of health 
insurance, making it affordable and portable.
  Give our health care system a tune-up, not a trade-in.

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