[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26551]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. HUNTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, the amazing thing with this whole insurance 
health care reform debate is we could fix health care. We could do it 
in this country. It is not that complicated. We could make it so we 
could buy health care across State lines. We could make it competitive 
and bring down prices and make sure that everybody has access to health 
care. But the health care problems in this country that are fixable are 
like a leaky faucet in somebody's house. This Congress could fix that 
leaky faucet, but we're not going to do that. The Pelosi health care 
bill says, let's burn down the house. Let's just burn it down. Forget 
about fixing it. Let's tear it down and we will replace it with some 
monstrosity that will not resemble a house like what we had prior to 
it.
  We don't need to burn down the house. We need to fix that leaky 
faucet. We could fix health care in this country. We could make health 
care affordable, accessible, and cheap. We don't need to burn down the 
house, which is what the Pelosi health care bill does.
  The Republicans will have a much better alternative to this which is 
being unveiled today. That is what we need to vote for.

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