House Proceeding 03-16-09 on Mar 16th, 2009 :: 2:32:50 to 2:35:57
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Speech By: Michelle Marie Bachmann

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Michelle Marie Bachmann: i know one thing, the people in my district are not interested in paying for the health care for illegal aliens that are coming across our border to be yet one more magnet to people in that should come here legally. that's a very real concern that

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Yvette Clarke: we're addressing and that's why i think people are so concerned right now about what they're seeing on the tax incline. mr. garrett: the health care issue is something we're all concerned about. we know too many people who are in small business who say i just can't affor to buy insurance for my employees because the price of it.

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Speech By: Yvette Clarke

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Yvette Clarke: we know too many individuals who are not working right now and they say they cannot afford to pay for the health insurance costs, not because doctors charge too much because we have a doctor right here, just because of the nature and thesome sta -- system that we have in place. the system we have right now, again, to get back to the facts, we do not have a free market health care system in this country. we have a government-regulated

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Yvette Clarke: system in this country. but we do agree, the three of us here believe, that we do have a problem with health care affordability for a vast majority of the americans and we do need to address that. but you do not address that as is done in president obama's budget which spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much, but putting in place holders of $634 billion which

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Yvette Clarke: we do not have today, which goes to -- which borrows too much. that to pay for our health care today basically will come from our kids and our grandkids. you do not solve the affordability issue in spending more money and taxing more money. do you it by ways i know the good doctor has addressed, by reforming the system, getting out inefficiencies in the

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Yvette Clarke: system, providing for the competition on various levels of the system, to basically overhauling the system to make sure that health care is available to every american citizen, young and old alike.

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Paul Braun, Jr.: we have talked about that on the floor before. we need to move that. spending, taxing and borrowing is not going to fix the health care system and i yield back. mr. broun: let me tell you about one government regulation that came into the health care system

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Speech By: Paul Braun, Jr.

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Paul Braun, Jr.: much government regulation increases the cost for all of us. i had a small automated lab with quality controls because when i did tests, i wanted to make sure the tests were appropriate, and that they gave good results so i could treat my patients in the best way. this -- congress passed a bill

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Paul Braun, Jr.: signed into law called the clinical laboratory improvement act. the patient came in to see me with a red sore throat and -- ipted to find out if they had a bacterial infection or viral infection, i would do a c.b.c., costs $12 and do it in five

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minutes. clia shut down my lab, had to send them to the hospital, it co the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time is expired. mrs. bachmann: thank you, madam speaker, we yield back.