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We Need Health Care Reform That Puts Patients First

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 8, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care


We Need Health Care Reform That Puts Patients First

Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, it was a long, hot August for many Members of Congress who returned home to face the displeasure of constituents fed up with Washington's tin ear syndrome.

Over the past month I have heard from more people than I can count who have had enough of the explosion of Washington-style big government. And of course it was no comfort that in the middle of August the White House announced that they expect $9.1 trillion in new government debt over the next 10 years. So how is it that the American people are expected to stomach a new government-run health care proposal that is estimated to cost up to $1.6 trillion?

Let's scrap the Democrat government-run health care proposal and return to the drawing board for a plan like ones that Republicans have offered that puts patients, not government, first.


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