Democrats' Government Intrusion into Private Health Care

DEMOCRATS' GOVERNMENT INTRUSION INTO PRIVATE HEALTH CARE -- (Extensions of Remarks - July 28, 2009)

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Mr. McKEON. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to the Democrats' government takeover of our Nation's health care system. This new vision of health care in America is not something the American people can embrace. A bill allowing for government intrusion into the most private matters of our lives can never be justified. Let me share a couple of examples:

Imagine you are 65 years old and you go in for your annual checkup. You are in fine health and you are expecting to hear that everything is fine. Instead, your doctor is required by unelected government bureaucrats to tell you of the proper way to wind down your life and enter hospice care. You may be in perfect health, but the government entered your conversation with you and your doctor and determined that you should really be preparing for the end of your life. This is just one single intrusion on page 424 of this thousand-page bill.

Another example of government intrusion? How about the millions of seniors who may lose their choice of coverage when the government steps in and pares back the Medicare Advantage program? The $162 billion in cuts proposed by the Democrat majority will result in the loss of health care choices for rural Californians in my district. That's just another government intrusion on page 331 of this 1,000-plus-page bill.

Madam Speaker, this bill injects government into all of our private health care decisions, and drives the deficit up by trillions of dollars, passing on mountains of debt and a ruined health care system to our children and grandchildren. Let's take the time to read this bill and give the American people the opportunity to learn how much this is going to impact their lives every day.

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