[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 23]
[House]
[Page 30783]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, a constituent statement to Congress by Judy 
Brady of Texas District 31 on health care reform. I received this, and 
I wanted to read it to the rest of the Congress:
  You tell us that the government needs to control health care because 
the government can administer programs more cheaply and fairly than the 
private system. Of course, recent studies show that nearly 10 percent 
of all Medicare payments are fraudulent. Why should we believe that 
government can do a better job with the entire Nation's health care 
system than it already does with Medicare?
  We ask you to leave health care in the hands of doctors and patients 
and that you help drive down the costs of insurance so that more of us 
can be covered. Give us nationwide competition between private 
insurers, allow us tax deductions for insurance we purchase, and 
promote tort reform. Don't force us into a government system that will 
cost us more and cover us less.

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