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On the recordMarch 18, 2010
I agree with you, but he has also said that he wants everybody in this country to be under one pool, a government total control of health care where the Federal Government is the insurance agent for everybody in this country, single-payer system where the government is the insurance system for every person in this country. And the point I was making is if the Senate bill is passed into law, won't he have accomplished that purpose? And my contention is absolutely he will have what he wants. They'll put in place the mechanism for the Federal Government to take over the health care system to socialize medicine in this country. The Socialist Party in the 1930s said the fastest way to take away our liberty and go from a free market economy to become a socialist nation for us to lose our freedom is for the government to take over the health care system. And so the President will have what he wants when that bill is deemed passed by the Slaughter rule or the Slaughter House rule.
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Paul Broun
Republican · Georgia
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Mar 18, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is discussing concerns about government control over health care and its implications for freedom.

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