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“Well, I appreciate the gentleman from Mississippi's comments, and I hope he continues to stay with us here this evening and we have this conversation as we move forward. The gentleman from Mississippi touched on something, Mr. Speaker, that is extremely important when it comes to this issue. With the adoption and the repeal of ObamaCare, what we're trying to send to the American people is a message that the folks on this side of the aisle, in particular, want to make sure that we tackle health care reform and, one, we take care of the critical issue, and that is how are we going to change the cost escalators that are occurring in health care every year. How are we going to do that? Now, the fundamental principle over here on our side of the aisle that I firmly believe in is that we are going to do that, once we repeal this law, by taking reforms from the perspective of the individual, from the patient, and from the doctor's point of view, not from the ObamaCare model of handing it to administrators and bureaucrats and somehow thinking that the government has the solution to this problem. What we're going to deploy, in my opinion, are good old-fashioned market forces, forces of individual choice, having individuals and patients and doctors control their health care destiny rather than having some unelected bureaucrat under the Independent Payment Advisory Board making determinations as to what type of health care you're going to receive. We can do better than that in America.…”