[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26554]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. McCARTHY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCARTHY of California. Mr. Speaker, when I listened to thousands 
of my constituents on tele-town halls this past summer and held town 
halls with 5,000 constituents in August, the overwhelming and 
consistent message they told me was to find real solutions.
  My constituents told me we need to improve health care, but H.R. 3200 
is bureaucracy; it's deficit spending; it's taxes; it's intrusion into 
the personal health care decisions between our doctors and ourselves 
moved in the wrong direction.
  I don't think any one of my constituents told me that Congress needs 
to double down on H.R. 3200, but that's what the new 1,990-page Pelosi 
health care bill is. It is version 2.0 in the government's taking over 
of the health care of Americans. It creates government bureaucracies 
that make health care decisions for us. It costs over $1 trillion, and 
it uses Medicare cuts on seniors and new taxes on Americans and small 
businesses to pay for them.
  We want solutions that will give us the ability to purchase health 
insurance across State lines. We want solutions that will help people 
who can't get insurance because of preexisting conditions. We want 
solutions that don't use Medicare to pay for non-Medicare spending, and 
we want solutions that will control health care costs.

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