Repeal of Obamacare Act
Floor Speech
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Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. I have never doubted my friends on the other side of the aisle's compassion or sincerity, but have always believed there was a better way of handling these health care costs to make sure that we all get the health care we need and the doctor we choose at a price we can afford.
Here are some ways we need to do this:
Allow people to buy across State lines. A University of Minnesota study said it would drop the uninsured by 12 million;
The ability to join groups, because the purchasing power of groups is what is making Medicare part D come in at 40 percent under budget;
Put an emphasis on coordinated care, which decreases hospitalizations and avoidable readmissions and complications, sometimes by 20 to 40 percent;
By making sure health care plans are personal, affordable and permanent, you can take the plan you need across jobs and you can't be cut for being sick;
To make sure there are tax deductions for buying insurance just like employers have, to allow the chronically ill to be part of high-risk pools;
To encourage people to take steps in their own life to maintain their own health, and;
To have better use of prescription drugs, generic and nongeneric, which also saves a massive amount of money because some $250 billion a year is wasted in drug problems.
We need this instead of $570 billion in new taxes in a $1.76 trillion bill.
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Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, have you ever seen the movie ``Fatal Attraction''? It's a great film. The Glenn Close character is so obsessed with Michael Douglas that she does everything within her power to try to win him over, flipping out at the end of the movie by going and boiling the Douglas family bunny. Well, Mr. Speaker, I would submit that, having now had 30 different debates on this floor over repeal of the health care bill, the House Republicans have finally hit their boil-the-bunny moment.
Enough is enough. The American people want us to move on. And what they would suggest is, instead of listening to their inner Glenn Close, that maybe House Republicans should start listening to people like Colleen, a 61-year-old retired teacher from Danbury. She's got diabetes; she's got sleep apnea. What she wants is not more politics on the floor of the House of Representatives; she wants relief. She doesn't want another 5-hour debate on top of the other 29. She wants this bill implemented.
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