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Louie Gohmert: A couple of issues I want to address. I appreciate so much my friend, Dr. Fleming, who has the adjoining district to…

On the recordMarch 22, 2012
A couple of issues I want to address. I appreciate so much my friend, Dr. Fleming, who has the adjoining district to mine, across the Sabine River over in Louisiana. He makes great points. We need to get the Federal Government out of the business of controlling people's health care. We need to get them back in the business of being a referee, making sure insurance companies and health care providers do the right thing, butt out of the business of dictating and controlling health care. Very clear from ObamaCare, the IPAB, we got a board of 15 people going to dictate people's medical decisions for them, and, of course, all of the pandering back during the debate on ObamaCare how you can, as my friend Dr. Fleming pointed out, the President, all those who mirror his comments, all those that read from the same teleprompter and say, oh no, you like your health care, you can keep it. You like your doctor, you can keep it. Well, we knew they were wrong. They were wrong. So most people have already lost their health care exactly as they had it before if they liked it, and if they haven't yet, they will. That's why it was a good idea, not only to repeal the provision on that board that will dictate people's lives, what health care they can have, what they can't have. That was a good idea. We need to repeal the whole bill.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Mar 22, 2012

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