[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25802]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. SULLIVAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, a $1.5 trillion government takeover of our 
health care system is not the answer. People were not even consulted 
about this. When I was home in August, physicians, patients, doctors, 
providers were not informed. The stakeholders were not even told about 
the Obama health care plan before it came out. This is not the answer.
  And people are suffering right now. Our economy is not doing too 
well. People are losing jobs. And an $818 billion tax increase on small 
business is not the way to reform our health care system. It is the 
wrong approach.
  Republicans have a better way. We want people to have choice. One 
thing the Republicans want, we want people with preexisting conditions 
to get coverage and we want health insurance to go down, but we want to 
make sure that the bureaucrats don't get in the way of the doctor-
patient relationship. That is what this plan does. There are 31 
bureaucracies in place, bureaucracies and czars between you, the 
patient, and the doctor. That is the wrong approach.
  We don't need an Obama health care plan. We need one that gives 
choice. We need one where people have an option to have a relationship 
with their doctor, and we need one that doesn't tax small business, 
especially right now when people are suffering and the economy is not 
doing that well.

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