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Real Health Care Reform Gives The Patient The Power

Floor Speech

Date: June 18, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM GIVES THE PATIENT THE POWER

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Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. Speaker, critical to health care reform is who has the power. Currently, the payer has the power. Ask a Medicaid recipient if she has the power or the government agency which pays. Ask a patient denied a procedure if he has the power or the insurance company which pays.

Reform must fix what's broken. What's broken is who has the power. Real reform gives the patient the power.

Government already controls 50 percent of health care spending. By controlling dollars, bureaucrats control care.

The President's plan doubles down on government control. It doubles down what is broken. It invests in government, not in patients. How can we trust bureaucracies that broke health care to fix health care? Trust government that always overpromised and underfunded?

Until reform transfers power from payer to patient, there is no reform. Give the power to the patient.

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