[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26390]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
North Carolina (Ms. Foxx) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. FOXX. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
  Everywhere I go in my district, people tell me they are frightened. 
They are frightened about what is happening in this country. They fear 
for the future of our country. What they're talking about is that they 
fear for our freedoms and they fear for the principles that formed this 
country and have always been the basis on which we've operated. I share 
that fear; and I believe they should be fearful. And I believe that the 
greatest fear that we all should have to our freedom comes from this 
room, this very room, and what may happen later this week in terms of a 
tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill. I believe we have 
more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from 
any terrorist right now in any country.
  In order to help explain some of why we should be fearful, the 
Republican Conference has gone through Speaker Pelosi's bill--tax bill 
masquerading as a health care bill--and brought out some pertinent 
points page by page; and I want to share some of those with people. One 
of the good things that's happened this year is that people have 
learned they can read these bills and become familiar with them 
themselves, so they don't need us to tell them, but it may help to 
point to specific pages.
  Page 94--section 202(c) prohibits the sale of private individual 
health insurance policies beginning in 2013, forcing individuals to 
purchase coverage through the Federal Government. We can't make that 
up. It's right there in the bill.
  Page 110--section 222(e) requires the use of Federal dollars to fund 
abortions through the government-run health plan; and, if the Hyde 
amendment were ever not renewed, would require the plan to fund 
elective abortions.
  Page 111--section 223 establishes a new board of Federal bureaucrats 
(the ``Health Benefits Advisory Committee'') to dictate the health 
plans that all individuals must purchase; and would likely require all 
Americans to subsidize and purchase plans that cover any abortion.
  I think one of the funniest pieces in the bill, if anything can be 
considered funny, page 122, section 233(a)(3), requires the 
commissioner, the new insurance czar, to, quote, issue guidance on best 
practices of plain language writing--this from the same people who 
wrote a 1,990-page health care bill which is very difficult to read.
  Page 1183--section 1904 provides $750 million in Federal funding for 
a new entitlement program to offer, quote, knowledge of realistic 
expectations of age-appropriate child behaviors and skills for parents 
to interact with their child.
  Page 1255--sections 2231-2235 makes veterinary students eligible for 
up to $283 million in Federal scholarship and student loan forgiveness 
funding.
  Page 1432--section 2531 provides incentive payments to States that 
enact new medical liability laws--but only if such laws, quote, do not 
limit attorneys' fees or impose caps on damages.
  We need medical liability reform. This bill will prevent that from 
happening. It's a bad bill. The American people should be frightened of 
it.

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