House Proceeding 07-09-09 on Jul 9th, 2009 :: 1:55:35 to 1:57:55
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Michael C. Burgess: while i served on the local public school board? . absolutely not. all four of my children went to that school, i tried to make it aspect as i could. so for this democratic majority

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Speech By: Michael C. Burgess

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Michael C. Burgess: and this president, i will take it a step further than what dr. fleming said, i would say to the president and to mrs. obama and to the children, you know, sign up for public health plan, because you are purporting it to be the best thing since sliced bread better than blue cross

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Michael C. Burgess: /blue shield, whatever is out there in the private market. i yield back to dr. burgess as he wraps up this wonderful hour. and i thank the gentleman from louisiana for bringing up this commonsense point. mr. burgess: last congress, i introduced a bill that would have removed members of congress

1:56:35 to 1:56:55( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: from the federal employee health benefit plan and give them a $3,000 voucher to go out into the individual market and purchase insurance figuring if we became uninsured, we would be more creative about seeking solutions. i did not get any co-sponsors. i did offer it to then senator

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Michael C. Burgess: obama through his surrogates, but i never got any takers. i have prepared an amendment, when we do get our bill in committee and i hesitated on this, because i don't want my more conservative friends to get angry at me for expanding an entitlement, but i have prepared an amendment that would make medicaid available to every

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Michael C. Burgess: member of congre and make congress a mandatory population to be covered under medicaid so that again we could experience for ourselves the frustration that patients find when they go to find a prior. medicaid reimburses terribly and

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Michael C. Burgess: it is difficult to find a provider that provides medicaid. and the gentleman is on the right track. i would like to take a few minutes and go to -- we have two doctors from georgia, two from louisiana.