[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3530]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. ISSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ISSA. Madam Speaker, after so many on both sides of the aisle 
have spoken, it is perhaps hard to find something new to talk about. I 
will endeavor to do so.
  Madam Speaker, President Obama has said the American people deserve 
the same high quality health care as Members of Congress have. Michelle 
Obama said the same thing. Speaker Pelosi said the same thing. Harry 
Reid said the same thing. As a matter of fact, virtually everybody in 
the Democratic caucus in leadership has said that.
  Then why is it H.R. 3438, a simple, seven-page bill that gives every 
member of America the opportunity to have the same high quality health 
care that we have as Congress is being ignored? Why is it it doesn't 
even exist in the Democrats' comprehensive health care bill? Thousands 
of pages, and yet it doesn't give you exactly what they say they want 
to give you.
  On top of that, who is beholden to the insurance companies? More than 
50 percent of American dollars are insured by the Federal Government 
already. It is Medicare. It is Medicaid that have, in many cases, been 
driving up the cost of health care, and yet this bill has no real 
reform for Federal health care.

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