[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9426]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             REPEAL AND REPLACE GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, a new poll shows that 63 
percent of the American public wants to repeal the expensive 
government-run health spending law. Sixty-three percent represents the 
largest opposition to the law since its enactment. It's no surprise, as 
the law forces people to hand over their hard-earned tax dollars to a 
private company to buy health insurance or else.
  As a constitutional conservative, I have to agree with the 63 percent 
of American voters who want this expensive, irresponsible, overreaching 
law repealed and replaced.
  Democrats were wrong on the bill's cost, wrong on the effect on jobs, 
and wrong on the issue of taxpayer funding of abortions. We must stand 
in favor of repealing and replacing the government health spending bill 
with real reforms that lower health care costs without subjecting us to 
any nationalized health plan. America does not want, need, or deserve 
government-controlled health care.

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