[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25799]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. AKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AKIN. Mr. Speaker, when people get into the details of health 
care, I think they sometimes miss seeing the very big picture. The big 
picture here is that the Pelosi and the Democrat health care plan has 
this final destination, which is that it's going to be run by some czar 
or commissar in the Federal Government.
  I guess the question I have is: On what sense of faith is this 
decision made?
  Is it the efficiency of the Post Office, perhaps, that inspires them 
or the compassion of the IRS, or is it, perhaps, the Department of 
Energy that was created to make sure we wouldn't be dependent on 
foreign oil or, perhaps, the Department of Education, which was studied 
some years ago, and it was determined in the study that, if a foreign 
power had done what the Department of Education has done to America, it 
would be considered an act of war?
  Why do we want to destroy the health care system that 100 million 
Americans enjoy in order to just simply socialize it and to turn it 
over to some czar in Washington, D.C.?
  That's an act of faith that's just too hard to follow.

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