[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26550]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. SHUSTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, we do need health reform in this country, 
but not this plan. We need a plan that uses common sense to fix what is 
broken and keep what is good. Eighty-five percent of Americans have 
health insurance, and 85 percent of those people are satisfied with 
what they have.
  President Obama has said over and over that no one will lose their 
insurance if they are happy with it. And just a couple of weeks ago he 
said that seniors on Medicare Advantage will have to go on regular 
Medicare, and that means 38,000 seniors in my district will lose their 
current Medicare plan.
  I have many small business owners who have come up to me and said 
they will be forced to abandon their current plans and go on the public 
option, not because they want to but because, if they don't, it will 
hurt their businesses.
  Finally, on page 94, it will prohibit families and businesses from 
changing plans unless the plan has been approved by the health czar. 
That is not freedom. This is not the plan that America wants. Let's 
vote this bill down.

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