[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 471]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, many Members on the Democratic side of the 
aisle, when we were considering health care reform, wanted a public 
option where the Federal Government would run it. It would ultimately 
save hundreds of billions of dollars more and, in fact, it would not be 
subject to the profit incentive of private insurance companies, but we 
decided ultimately not to do that.
  What we did is to decide to model our health care reform after the 
Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan, where private insurance firms 
provide the coverage; you sign up for it; you have competition. We have 
competition now nationally and within the States in this plan, but it's 
modeled after what we ourselves provided for ourselves as Members of 
Congress.
  Now the majority of the Members of Congress, both Democratic and 
Republican, have this plan for themselves. We just had a recommittal 
motion where we had the opportunity to say, if you vote against this 
plan for your constituents, then you ought to decline it for 
yourselves. A vast majority of Members took it for themselves but 
declined to provide it for their constituents.
  That's hypocrisy, Mr. Speaker.

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