[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26555]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. LATHAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, last evening, I did a telephone town hall 
meeting, and I talked to thousands of my constituents. We had a poll. 
We asked the question:
  Do you support the health care reform bill that was just introduced 
by Speaker Nancy Pelosi?
  The results were overwhelming: 76 percent of the people responded 
``no.'' The reason is that what people are concerned about are the 
costs in health care today, and the people at home understand the fact 
that this is only going to raise their costs. The government-run plan, 
the takeover plan of our health insurance, actually is going to cost 
more than what private insurance costs today.
  This isn't what was advertised. This isn't what people want. They 
don't want the government coming in, taking over their health 
insurance, changing their policies for them without their permission, 
cutting benefits to people on Medicare--people who need those benefits 
desperately. They're going to take those benefits away. This is not 
what the people wanted, and we're going to vote this bill down.

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