[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3518]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. BACHUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BACHUS. Madam Speaker, the United States is the largest economy 
in the world. We are bigger than our four next competitors, and we got 
there through personal freedom and individual choice. We didn't get 
there by government management.
  Now, countries in Europe, we have heard a lot about the fact that 
they have government-run health care, but that is not America. We are 
distinct. We place our faith in the individual. We compete, but we 
don't compete with the government.
  The Federal Government should not be given the power to make health 
care choices for you or your family or to force you, as a taxpayer, as 
a citizen, to pay for an abortion when it violates your values.
  Let's listen to the majority of Americans. Let's start over. Let's 
have an American plan. Let's work on solutions that are consistent with 
our traditions of choice, freedom, and put our faith in the individual, 
not the government.

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