[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27126]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Our President said, ``Our health care 
is too costly,'' and I agree. Yet before us in Washington are bills 
that tax wheelchairs, heart monitors, pacemakers and your insurance. 
These taxes make a family's health insurance cost $4,000 more. The 
President said that defensive medicine may be contributing to 
unnecessary costs, and I agree with the President. But the House bill 
coming up will block tort reform. As a candidate, the President said 
that we shouldn't underestimate the amount of money that can be saved 
in the current health care system. I agree. But these bills will cut 
Medicare by $500 billion and eliminate disease management programs and 
other programs that could save money.
  This bill doesn't fix our health care system. It finances it. It is 
not too late to reform Medicare, reform Medicaid, reform health care, 
cut the waste and improve quality. Let people buy across State lines. 
Let them join groups. Make insurance personal, portable and permanent. 
Millions are asking us to fix health care, but they want us to do it 
right. Millions of Americans can't all be wrong.

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