On the recordAugust 2, 2013
I now yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott), the ranking member on the Health Subcommittee of our committee. (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, as I listened to Mr. Waxman, it's clear he was talking about obsession. And you might ask, Well, why is this happening here and what's going on? This has happened before. This is the worst nightmare for the Republican Party. In 1964, the American Medical Association was flat out against the institution of Medicare. When I was in medical school, the president said, Boys, there isn't going to be any medicine in this country. We're having that socialized medicine come in. It's a terrible thing. And you know what happened? They made the people so afraid that when they went out to enroll people in Medicare, people said, Well, I don't want any of that government medicine in my house. Look at Medicare today. Nobody on that side would dare take out Medicare because the American people found out that what they were told in the advertising campaign leading up to it was not true. And that's what you are getting here today--untruths. Vote ``no'' on this.
