[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26538-26539]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, we've heard lots of stories today, and 
it has touched our hearts. We know there are people out there suffering 
because we've got some major problems with our health care system. We 
know that there are uninsured people because the costs are just too 
high, they're priced out of the market, or they've got a preexisting 
condition. We know that, for example, there is not interstate 
competition that goes on that boosts up the cost, along with the fact 
that we have excessive litigation in our society.

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  We could have fixed these issues so that everybody could be covered. 
The Republicans were willing to do it, but we were frozen out of this 
whole system because the Democrats didn't want to reform the system; 
they wanted to transform our current health care system into a 
government-run, bureaucratic Federal program.
  And they are doing that at the expense of seniors, where $400 billion 
is being taken out of their Medicare funds at the expense of small 
business and, yes, at the expense of all those people who are currently 
insured who will be thrown into this government-run system which will 
be inferior to the ones they have now in the private sector.
  This is a travesty. We should have worked together on this, but the 
Democrats wouldn't do it.

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