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Health Care

Floor Speech

Date: July 7, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

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Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, Democrats in Washington are pushing hard for a government takeover of health care. The result will be devastating for patients across the country.

In countries that already have government-run health care, like Britain and Canada, bureaucrats are put in charge of intimate health care decisions and critical care is denied.

Look at the story of one woman from Great Britain, Sarah Anderson. Her father suffers from a kidney tumor that could be treated by a drug approved throughout most of Europe. But, sadly, Britain's National Health Service is denying Sarah's father this lifesaving treatment.

This case is not unique as patients across Great Britain are denied the care they need by the government's health care service. In much of Canada, patients are even banned from paying for private health care.

The Democrats' health care reform would be a bad prescription for the American people.

Republicans have a better health care reform that provides high-quality health care coverage to every American and that doesn't put bureaucrats between patients and the care they need.

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