[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27184]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    FIX WHAT'S BROKEN IN HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, today is the showdown on a government 
takeover of health care. And while there are still deals being cut to 
try to round up the last few votes in the dark of night behind these 
closed doors, what the American people have said is they want 
transparency, and they don't want a government takeover of health care.
  The American people want to fix the problems that are broken like we 
do in the Republican alternative we will be presenting that actually 
lowers costs. The CBO score says 10 percent reduction in health care 
premium, addressing preexisting conditions, and, yes, we actually do 
real medical liability reform to lower the cost of health care and stop 
all of these tests that are run just for defensive medicine purposes.
  Just a little while ago, one of my friends on the Democratic side 
said that he wants to redefine freedom. Well, with all due respect, I 
think the Founding Fathers got it right. We don't need to go and 
rewrite freedom and have a government takeover of health care.
  Let's fix what's broken, but don't break all the things that make 
medical care work so well for many Americans in this country.

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