Renee L. Ellmers: “You know, and that gets to the greater point that the gentleman points out. This objective, when President Obama put it…”

“You know, and that gets to the greater point that the gentleman points out. This objective, when President Obama put it forward--I go back to the summer of 2009. I was not in any position to ever considering running for office; working as a nurse with my husband in his general surgery practice, trying to take care of the patients back home. When we were learning about what the President was proposing, we said, you know what, we just can't simply sit back and watch this happen to us, we have to speak out. Because there were many in our medical community who said, you know, this is wrong, this is wrong. We know that there are reforms that are needed. We know that we have so much to fix in health care. But this approach, this government takeover of health care, is only going to lead to socialized medicine. We know that. And that's not a winning health care system, not when you have the best health care system in the world. So we did, we started speaking out. We got on the road, we talked to people, we explained to them how dangerous this was. The very conversations I was having then are being realized today. The fears that we were discussing, the issues that we were discussing about where this would take us in health care, are now being realized. The quote that's on the chart, ``The system is down at the moment. We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible. Please try again later.'' That is what the people who are in need of health care, that's what they're reading.…”