On the recordMarch 22, 2012
We've just had a vote on H.R. 5, something very important. It's one of the horrible parts of the ObamaCare bill that we would have a board that would dictate to people what they could or could not have in the way of treatment or care. The Federal Government has no business getting between people and their doctor. They have no business taking over health care, because if the Federal Government has the right to take over people's health care, then they'll have the duty to tell people how to live, what they can eat, what they must do. But I had to vote ``no'' on this bill for this reason: in order to pay for this bill, under our rules, they added a provision that has the Congress dictating to every State in the country what their State med- mal tort laws have to be. In Texas, we did tort reform, and we have doctors coming back. Some say, well, Louie, other States don't have it. That's fine. It's their right. Their doctors can come to Texas. But when Congress wants to usurp State law, I have to say, ``No.'' ____________________
