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On the recordMarch 16, 2010
After so many on both sides of the aisle have spoken, it is perhaps hard to find something new to talk about. I will endeavor to do so. Madam Speaker, President Obama has said the American people deserve the same high quality health care as Members of Congress have. Michelle Obama said the same thing. Speaker Pelosi said the same thing. Harry Reid said the same thing. As a matter of fact, virtually everybody in the Democratic caucus in leadership has said that. Then why is it H.R. 3438, a simple, seven-page bill that gives every member of America the opportunity to have the same high quality health care that we have as Congress is being ignored? Why is it it doesn't even exist in the Democrats' comprehensive health care bill? Thousands of pages, and yet it doesn't give you exactly what they say they want to give you. On top of that, who is beholden to the insurance companies? More than 50 percent of American dollars are insured by the Federal Government already. It is Medicare. It is Medicaid that have, in many cases, been driving up the cost of health care, and yet this bill has no real reform for Federal health care. ____________________
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Darrell Issa
Republican · California

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