House Proceeding 02-13-09 on Feb 13th, 2009 :: 0:15:50 to 0:19:50
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Wally Herger: a path to real peace and a path to economic security worldwide. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: mr. burton of indiana. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise?

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Speech By: Wally Herger
Bill: H.R. 1: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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Wally Herger: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. herger: mr. speaker, we ju vd al stimulus bill that wasn't even availae for us to see until late last night. it should come as no surprise that this monumental piece of legislation, there are items in it that could not have survived careful scrutiny in the light

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Wally Herger: of day. many of my colleagues have pointed out the wildly extraffic get spending and the lack of -- extraffic get spending and the -- i share those concerns. but i also want to call to attention a little known provision tucked into six pages

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Wally Herger: deep inside this 1,100-page bill. the democrats are spending .1 billion on new federal board to conduct health care research. sounds innocent enough, right? unfortunately, this provision is a camel's nose under the tent, and the democrats' quest

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Wally Herger: to have the federal government push doctors aside and put washington in charge of patient's health treatment options. this board, the federal coordinating council on comparative effectiveness research, will be comprised of 15 federal bureaucrats all appointed by the president.

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Wally Herger: not a single practicing physician or patient advocate ll be allowed to sit on this board. mr. speaker, this is the first step of government-run health care. despite numerous requests from patient groups, th bill does not include a single protection to ensure that this research

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Wally Herger: will not be used by medicare, medicaid, v.a., d.o.d. or private health insurance to deny access to needed treatments. the goal of this board is to conduct research that will allow the federal government to deny need health care. physician groups are very concerned that this board and

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Wally Herger: its research was significantly -- will significantly harm patient-doctor relationships. other governments have be using this research to deny medically necessary care for years. the british government currently uses similar research to restrict treatment using a formula that divides the cost

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Wally Herger: of the treatment by the number of years the patient i to live. treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treaents for diseases that affect the elderly. for example, in 2006, the british government used comparative effective research

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Wally Herger: to say that elderly patients with macular degeneration had to wait til they went blind in one eye before they could get a new drug to save the other eye. it took almost three years of public protest before the board reversed its decision. mr. speaker, americans expect

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Wally Herger: better and deserve more. physicians and patients, not faceless federal bureaucrats, should be in charge of health care decisions. republicans will continue to fight to keep this federal government out of our americans' medicine cabinets. in the very near future, i'll be introducing legislation to