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




               LET US GO FORWARD; LET US NOT GO BACKWARD

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, we do not live on a government-run globe; 
we live in a people-powered world. The massive, radical change that is 
presented by the health care bill brought forward by this majority 
constitutes the policies of the past.
  Within the communications revolution in the globalized marketplace, 
one thing is certain: human beings, at a greater extent than at any 
other time in history, are now able to control more of their lives and 
their own decisions. True health care reform must not resist these 
times; they must meld with these times. We need patient-centered 
wellness through transparency, technology, and a humane and 
compassionate understanding and help for our fellow citizens. This bill 
will not do it.
  Fundamentally, this bill will bury the American people beneath Big 
Government at the very time they have a greater chance of empowering 
themselves and making their own decisions. Let us go forward; let us 
not go backward.

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