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Tom Price: here's the bill. Here is the health care bill folks have been talking about. Do you know what's in it? Most Members…

On the recordAugust 1, 2007
here's the bill. Here is the health care bill folks have been talking about. Do you know what's in it? Most Members don't. Under the guise of children's health, there is a hidden tax on every single private health insurance policy in the Nation. Every one. Why? Because the desire of those on the left to gradually move every American to Washington-controlled bureaucratic health care is so strong they will stop at nothing. Their desire is to end the ability of patients and their doctors to make independent choices and decisions. As a physician, I know how detrimental the government can be to quality health care. In addition, this bill will end the choices and freedoms that 8 million seniors currently have on Medicare Advantage, cutting Medicare to 8 million seniors. Now, the left will pass this bill today because they can under a gag rule. That doesn't make the process or the policy correct. This is not what the American people want nor what they deserve, and they are watching.
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Tom Price
Georgia

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Opposing a health care bill during a House floor debate.

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