Health Care

Floor Speech

Mr. Speaker, the people in Texas that I represent oppose the Pelosi-Obama government takeover health care bill by a margin of 77 percent because we understand in Texas that our health care system needs a tune-up, not a trade-in. We need to focus, as the conservative minority has, on reducing the cost of health insurance and making it affordable and portable.

We, in the conservative minority, the temporary minority, have authored legislation that will make insurance portable across State lines, that will bring down the cost of health insurance by enacting tort reforms nationwide to protect doctors from frivolous litigation as we did in Texas. In Texas, we adopted tort reform, and the cost of health insurance dropped for all Texans, and about 400,000 additional Texans got health insurance who could not before.

We need to make sure that the greatest health care system ever created in the history of the world is protected, that we protect the doctor-patient relationship. Let's focus on reducing the cost of health insurance, making it affordable and portable.

Give our health care system a tune-up, not a trade-in.

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