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On the recordMarch 17, 2010
Free enterprise. That is right. Free choice. The other is to have total government control. And then you are going to have to have long lines and rationing. Now, in the countries that have the latter, that is the long lines and rationing, and these are well-developed countries like Canada to our north, the United Kingdom, the difference in death rates from common cancers, breast cancer and prostate cancer, are unbelievable. We are getting extremely high cure rates, well over 90 percent here in the United States. Let's take breast cancer. Breast cancer affects one in six women. Let me say parenthetically, the other side over there talks about women's rights and all the things we need to do for women, but yet this, if we follow this pathway, we're going to have a lot more women dying of things like breast cancer because here is why. You look at the U.K., the United Kingdom, they don't pay for mammograms. And also the better chemotherapeutic drugs that can cure the more difficult cases of breast cancer, they don't pay for them. Why? It costs too much. It doesn't fit into the budget.
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John Fleming
Republican · Louisiana

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