[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26549]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, before the Federal Government got heavily 
into health care in the mid-sixties, medical care was cheap and 
affordable for almost everyone. Doctors even commonly made house calls. 
We took what was a very minor problem for very few people and turned it 
into a major problem for everyone.
  The people want medical care that is less expensive and less 
bureaucratic. The bill that we will apparently vote on later this week 
is 1,990 pages of bureaucratic gobbledygook. It will make health care 
even more expensive and even more bureaucratic. As Senator Joe 
Lieberman said on Face the Nation, this bill ``will actually hurt the 
economic recovery and our long-term financial situation.''
  The pattern seems to be that the Federal Government makes a problem 
so bad that the only solution people can see is for the government to 
take it all over. But a famous man once wrote that there is a simple 
solution to every human problem, one that is neat, plausible and wrong. 
This bill is the socialist approach, and all it will do over the long 
haul is make a bad situation even worse.

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