House Proceeding 11-04-09 on Nov 4th, 2009 :: 0:46:05 to 0:47:40
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Peter Hoekstra: republican proposal and the democrat proposal. because the democrat proposal says, we're going to totally wipe out, you know, over a period of time, private sector health insurance and we're going to take the freedom that the american people have to direct their insurance, to direct their health care, and we're going to move it over and we're going to

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Speech By: Peter Hoekstra

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Peter Hoekstra: put that the federal government. and you know what that means? that means that's why -- their bill, but that's not all of it.

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Peter Hoekstra: that's their bill. that's whyhis is their bill. this is almost all of it. don't have the last 40 pages that the speaker added to the bill last night. but when you're going to take over health care and move responsibility from you and me and our constituents and move it

0:47:07 to 0:47:28( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: to government, it takes you 2,000 pages to describe what you're going to do, create the 3,000 times where it says the commissioner shall, will or must -- because those are new decisions that the federal government's going to ma we're not going to make. -- and if that this is all you really need.

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Peter Hoekstra: that's the republican proposal. mr. broun: that's the republican bill. mr. hoekstra: the republican proposal says we want to deal with tort reform and pre-existing conditions and do some stuff with competition and those types of things.