Health Care

Floor Speech

Mr. Speaker, the Democratic health care bill now being drafted behind closed doors is bad for seniors, bad for taxpayers, and bad for the quality of America's health care system.

It will cut Medicare spending on seniors. It will cost taxpayers $1 trillion, and it will push the American medical system toward an underfunded, overregulated, government-run health care system. We can do better than that.

Republicans have offered in good faith positive proposals putting patients first, reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship, increase accessibility, and truly make health care more affordable. However, these ideas have never been heard in the back rooms of the Capitol where the Democrats are crafting their own partisan proposals.

Mr. Speaker, the majority's proposals continue to ignore medical liability reform, something the President himself said would be addressed. Tort reform has yet to be raised in the deliberations of our Democratic majority.

Mr. Speaker, we cannot allow the government to stand between patients and health care. Americans are smart enough to know the difference between no choice and a real choice.

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