[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 26704]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I have looked at the revised Democrat 
health care bill. It raises taxes. It raises premiums. It cuts 
Medicare. It costs $1 trillion. It puts a myriad of bureaucrats in 
between the patient and the doctor. Call me thick, but I don't get it. 
Why are they doing this?
  We need targeted reforms. Americans have said loudly, I don't want to 
give up my health care. I want you to help the people who have fallen 
through the cracks, but let me keep mine because my program is working. 
And they're not being selfish; they're using common sense. If the 
kitchen sink is leaking, you don't take a wrecking ball to the entire 
kitchen. You fix the sink.
  We need targeted health care that doesn't cut Medicare and doesn't 
raise taxes and doesn't cause premium increases. The Republican Party 
has offered many of these, and some of them are signed by Democrats. We 
can put together a targeted, bipartisan alternative, and we need to do 
it.

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