Brian Bilbray: “I rise to strongly support H.R. 2506, and let me just say as someone who has the privilege of representing the 49th…”

“I rise to strongly support H.R. 2506, and let me just say as someone who has the privilege of representing the 49th District of California, one of the capitals of both public and private research, I want to commend the chairman and the ranking member for a cooperative effort here at really serving the American people. The concept of reform and change sometimes scares people in these chambers and they worry about what could go wrong, and I think we have to remind ourselves again and again that reform and change is also an essential step to improvement. And this bill will allow us to take that step towards an improvement of not only the cost effectiveness, the cost efficiency, but also the effectiveness of our total health care system through the information age. Mr. Chairman, 2506 will be that kind of step. And I hope that in the future we will be able to look back at H.R. 2506 and look back at the cooperative effort between the chairman of the subcommittee and the ranking member of this subcommittee and say this was the beginning of a very productive relationship between both sides of the aisle and a productive relationship with the American people and their health care system. Mr. Chairman, I would ask all of us to support this bill and support the attitude that is behind this bill and to support the entire concept that Democrats and Republicans can work together for the good of the safety and the health of the American people.”