Future Access To Quality Health Care

Floor Speech

Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the looming health care debate here in Washington, D.C.

The American people know the truth about the Democrat health care proposal. We know that it's full of mandates, full of taxes, and will result in further job losses, but it also cuts reimbursement to physicians and hospitals and creates an even larger access problem.

In the proposed health care reforms, congressional Democrats are racing to create an unsustainable government-run health care plan that would reimburse physicians and hospitals no more than 30 to 60 percent of market rates.

Public safety-net hospitals like Parkland Hospital--which serves as a critical health care provider to many in Dallas, Texas--need to keep their doors open to make this plan successful. My Republican colleagues and I believe that we need to guarantee physicians and hospitals adequate reimbursement for their services to ensure the American people have access to a delivery system that works--not mandates, not taxes, and not job losses.

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