[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25794]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, there are 20 million uninsured 
Americans who just can't afford insurance, others who have lost 
insurance when they lost their jobs. Still others have a preexisting 
insurance condition and have been frozen out of the insurance market. 
Then there are frivolous lawsuits which drain very limited health care 
dollars. Of course, we find that our best insurance providers can't 
sell their insurance across the country. They are frozen out. There is 
no competition.
  These are problems that Republicans are anxious to work with 
Democrats on. I plead with my Democratic colleagues, don't hold health 
care reform hostage, dependent on the enactment of some socialistic 
experiment with government-run health care.
  What's going to happen? What's being demanded here is a 
transformation of our system rather than a reform of our system. That 
transformation of our system will hurt seniors. It will take people who 
now have insurance in small business and put them out of a job as well 
as with no insurance. Of course, it will not improve the situation but 
will be very costly for the American people.

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