[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25803]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. HUNTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HUNTER. This is an interesting debate about health care. The 
interesting thing about this is that Congress could fix it. We could 
increase portability. We could make it so there aren't any more 
frivolous lawsuits. We could make it so there is more access, so it is 
cheaper, and there are more tax incentives for health care. But we 
aren't doing that.
  What we have with health care in this country is a leaky faucet, and 
liberal Democrats want to tear down the entire house for that one leaky 
faucet. We could fix the faucet without a 1,200-page bill that is so 
complex that 90 percent of the American people can't understand it.
  We could fix health care and do it responsibly, and we could do it 
gradually. Unfortunately, it looks like we will be voting to tear down 
the entire house. I say we just fix the leaky faucet, reform health 
insurance in this country, and fix things one at a time.

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