[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27124]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. BROUN of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I am a physician. I practiced 
medicine in Georgia for almost four decades. In health care, us 
providers try to do no harm. But, Mr. Speaker, this Pelosi health care 
takeover is going to destroy the quality of health care.
  It is going to actually destroy poor people, and particularly 
Medicare recipients, from even having a doctor, because the cuts in 
Medicare are going to mean that doctors just can't afford to continue 
to see them, even though they want to.
  It is going to destroy State budgets because of the increase in the 
Medicaid recipients that are going to be forced on to the State 
budgets, which means that it is going to hurt teachers and all the 
goods and services within the State.
  It is going to destroy every family's budget because of the increased 
cost for everybody in this country, because all goods and services are 
going to go up because of the increased taxes on all the business.
  It is going to destroy jobs. It has been estimated that 5.5 million 
jobs are going to be lost. But, most of all, it is going to destroy our 
economy.
  We need to destroy this bill.

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