[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26530]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 DOING HEALTH CARE REFORM THE RIGHT WAY

  (Mrs. CAPITO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, the American people want health care 
reform, but they want the right kind of reform. They want to know that 
we are not going to raise taxes on job creators when the economy is 
just coming out of a recession. They want to know that we are not going 
to change the health care that they have now. They want to know that 
Medicare will be there for them.
  As a mother of three, I can remember nights when one of our children 
would have a cold and I would put my ear to their chest to hear the 
rattle or to hear if they were developing croup. And that is what we 
have been doing with this health care reform. The Republicans have been 
putting their ears to the chest of the American people to find out what 
they want. And what they want, they want reform the right way, not a $1 
trillion plan that will lead to uncertainty and that will have certain 
people lose their health care.
  We need to do health care reform, but we need to do it the right way.

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