[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26545]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      HEALTH CARE AND THE ECONOMY

  (Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, when we come to real health 
reform, we need to take cost out, not add it, as this monstrosity of a 
bill does. There is consensus in the House for real reform that would 
reengineer the Center for Medicare Services to bring it into this 
century, provide real private market reform, and end junk lawsuits once 
and for all against our doctors.
  But Speaker Pelosi permits none of this, squelching over 45 real 
health care reform bills that have been introduced. Instead, the Pelosi 
bill is based on a job-killing $800 billion tax on small businesses 
that the Obama administration says will cost 5 million jobs, cuts 
senior benefits by half a trillion dollars doing so-called reform on 
the backs of seniors, and creates 111 new government agencies. That is 
not reform.
  Let's stop this bill, go back to square one, and give the American 
people what they are demanding, which is the protection of their health 
freedom and real reform today.

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