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Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act

Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 19, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

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Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, Americans have wanted health care reform for some time now, but they don't want what passed last spring.

This is a 2,000-page bill that gives us more mandates and more regulation. It doesn't accomplish the goal of reducing cost and increasing access; and it puts our health care decisions in the hands of bureaucrats, not in the hands of patients and family members where it belongs.

There is a better way. With today's repeal, this is the first step. Tomorrow we begin the process of replacement with commonsense market-based solutions that are going to bring costs down, solutions like competition across State lines, portability, price transparency, tax parity, and allowing folks who have preexisting conditions to obtain coverage.

I look forward, starting tomorrow, to working with not only my friends here on the right but also my colleagues here on the left to craft a bill that's going to work for the American people.

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