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On the recordFebruary 26, 2010
Reclaiming my time, and I thank the gentleman from Georgia for his contribution to this document and the thought process that this defines. If there are those in this House of Representatives who have objections to the positions that are taken here on this road map, the ``New Rules of the Road Going Forward,'' I would like to hear them step forward and tell me what it is that they object to. Do they object to protecting the doctor-patient relationship as inviolate? Do they want the government to make those decisions out of their computer base and their committee? A lot of us have seen the flowchart, the Health Choices Administration czar. It's really interesting, when you see a piece of legislation--H.R. 3200 in this House--that says in there that there will be all of these decisions made and power invested in the Health Choices Administration Commissioner--I call him ``the commissarissioner''--and this is a person to be named later and a committee to be named later by legislation to be passed whenever they can put the votes together and get the President to sign it.…
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