[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4885-4886]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      OBAMACARE HAS BEEN A FAILURE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, so here we go again. Yet another change, 
another modification in ObamaCare, another deadline extended. I don't 
understand it. If there was such a clamor for socialized medicine, why 
aren't people standing in droves to sign up for ObamaCare?
  I can tell you why. Because it has not decreased their premium, it 
has not
increased their quality, and it has not increased access to health 
care. ObamaCare has been a failure.
  We need to replace it with market-driven, patient-centered health 
care where the doctor and the patient are in charge of health care. We 
need to have health care that gives consumers options and health 
savings accounts so that they have more choices and they can pocket 
whatever savings they create. We need to allow consumers to buy health 
care across State lines so that

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there will be more competition. We need to allow small businesses to 
band together so that they can get the economies of scale that large 
businesses get. And we need to push back on frivolous lawsuits so that 
doctors aren't practicing defensive medicine.
  Mr. Speaker, these are things we can do that will make health care 
increase in quality and go down in price.

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