Bipartisan Solutions Are Best

Floor Speech

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, Republicans agree we need to reform the health care system. Yet the Democrat leadership hide behind closed doors. They've chosen to go it alone; and as a result, they have a scheme of proposals that adds to the deficit, spends over $1 trillion, enacts a government takeover of health care, and has garnered bipartisan opposition.

Democrats should sit down at the table with Republicans and work on a bipartisan plan of reform. Republicans have commonsense solutions that will help Americans afford insurance, regardless of preexisting conditions. We want to provide small businesses the resources and freedom to offer and keep insurance for their employees.

House Republicans and the American people do not believe we need to let Big Government take over our health care, ration out the taxpayer-subsidized care, and raise taxes on small businesses that will, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, cost 1.6 million jobs lost, in addition to the 2.6 million jobs lost since January.

In conclusion, God bless our troops and we will never forget September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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