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Michael Burgess

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Michael Clifton Burgess is an American politician and physician who has served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 26th congressional district since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Burgess has focused on healthcare policy, leveraging his medical background to inform his legislative work. He has been involved in various committees and has advocated for issues such as medical research and veterans' healthcare. Burgess has also been a vocal supporter of conservative fiscal policies and has participated in discussions surrounding healthcare reform.

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Apr 2, 2013

Undermining the long-term architecture. Well, that is an elegant of talking about something when in reality what we should have been told 3 years ago...

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Apr 2, 2013

I don't know why there has been such a resistance to accepting that lesson that he has shown so elegantly in Indiana.

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Apr 2, 2013

They have created a regime over there which is almost impenetrable. So it is any wonder that no one at the State level wants to buy--they don't want to buy any more of that.

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Apr 2, 2013

The same place all of the money comes from. Take it from someone else at the point of a spear and they give it to us willingly after we threaten them with lifetime incarceration and the impounding of all their personal property.

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Apr 2, 2013

If anything, our party has a multitude of ideas. But one overreaching aspect of policy that there seems to be general consensus is, we do need to address the needs of Americans with what are called preexisting conditions.

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Apr 2, 2013

We will not charge women a discriminatory premium.

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Apr 2, 2013

Mr. Burgess. And those very folks begged us not to disrupt what they were receiving, and it looks like we have.

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Apr 2, 2013

For far too long, Republicans have been accused of not having alternatives to the major parts of President's health care law.

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Apr 2, 2013

Mr. Burgess. The architecture underlying the Affordable Care Act is anything but elegant; it is bizarre.

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Apr 2, 2013

It is a lot cheaper than the $2.6 trillion that this thing is going to cost.

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Apr 2, 2013

I was concerned that if the Supreme Court felt as I did that day and said look, this thing is outside the bounds that the Constitution places on the legislative branch, folks are going to have the rug pulled out from under them.

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Apr 2, 2013

Harry Reid told Nancy Pelosi this is it, this is what you get, I can't change it.

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