Putting Patients First

Floor Speech

Mr. Speaker, this House of Representatives is the people's voice, and we are about to deliver exactly what they have been asking for: reforms in our health care system, reforms that were asked of us by our people back home in our districts. Ideas, great ideas come from our people, including closing the doughnut hole in Medicare part D, reforming medical malpractice to make sure it is affordable for every practitioner and their patients, and to negotiate finally for deeper discounts from prescription drug companies.

We are also going to eliminate the antitrust exemption that the Wall Street-run health insurance corporations have been benefiting from for several decades. We are also going to begin to look at purchasing health care policies across State lines.

This is what the people want: They want private doctors and private hospitals. They want to be in charge of their health care again.

We are going to put patients first in this House of Representatives.

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