[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27182]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, if you want to know 
the ultimate option, open up this bill and look. You are required as an 
American citizen to buy a health insurance policy that has been okayed 
and only okayed by the Federal Government. If you don't, you could pay 
a fine, and if you don't pay that fine, you could go to prison for up 
to 5 years. Where is the public option? Well, if you are in prison, you 
are going to get free medical care. I presume that is the ultimate 
tragedy in this bill.
  We are changing the relationship of individuals to their government. 
Now, for the first time in history, as a condition of remaining in the 
United States, you must purchase something the Federal Government 
requires you to under the pain of a fine, up to $250,000, and 5 years 
in prison. What kind of freedom is that? What kind of public option 
could that possibly be?

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