Americans Need to Demand a Market-Based Health Care System

AMERICANS NEED TO DEMAND A MARKET-BASED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM -- (House of Representatives - July 16, 2009)

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Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I'm a medical doctor. I used to do a radio program called ``House Calls with Dr. Paul,'' where I tried to explain medical problems to people so that they could understand them.

As a Member of Congress, I am here this morning to try to explain this health care bill in ways that Americans can understand it. America needs to decide whether they want a health care system where they make the decisions in conjunction with their doctor or some Washington bureaucrat makes those decisions.

They need to make the decision whether they want a health care system where they have to wait long periods of time for surgeries and for tests, for MRIs and x-rays, where people who have cancer can't get the life-saving treatments that they desperately need, which is what we've been seeing from the other side.

We have solutions. Republicans have introduced numerous bills; and numerous bills will be introduced that will solve the health care problems, lower the cost of premiums, lower the cost of medicine, hospital bills and doctors' bills. The American people need to decide and demand a market-based health care system.

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