NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “again, as we come to the well this evening, we see a very vast difference in our visions of health care and visions of…”

“again, as we come to the well this evening, we see a very vast difference in our visions of health care and visions of America. Our friends on the left who later tonight will offer a $1 trillion government command-and-control approach to prescription drugs now take strong objection, to put it diplomatically, about a plan that, yes, initially is expensive. I would grant Members that billions are real dollars here, but it substantially supplements and expands the ability of people to have health insurance. As the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan) mentioned, it gives employers more options to provide that type of insurance by embracing catastrophic plans and freeing up dollars to go to employees, and as we see in the case of health savings security accounts, and this is the key, and I would urge my colleagues to understand this, as so many have come to the well of this House on both sides of the aisle and lamented the numbers of uninsured Americans, not the medically indigent with whom we try to deal through Medicaid, but those who are working people who do not have insurance, this provides an option to those people to embrace insurance. To realize savings, yes, does require a modicum of personal responsibility, undoubtedly. But, Mr. Speaker, certainly we have not degenerated to the point where we absolutely forsake a notion of personal responsibility in savings.”