House Proceeding 11-07-09 on Nov 7th, 2009 :: 2:14:20 to 2:18:45
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David Dreier: speaker. mr. speaker, at this the republican party the distinguishegentleman, the ranking member of the rules committee, the gentleman from san dimas, california, mr. dreier. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore:

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Speech By: David Dreier

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David Dreier: thout objection, so ordered. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, i thank my friend for yielding. the american people have spoken very loudly and clearly. they do not want the federal government to control 1/6 of our naon's economy, and they believe that we should be able to scru we have over 2,000 pages here. many of the changes were made late last night, mr. speaker. and we've not had what the

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David Dreier: american people said we need to have following the debate on the cap and trade bill when we had a 300-page amendment dropped on u morning. and that is an adequate amount of time to look at this legislation. my friend from dallas has talked about unintended consequences. obviously in those 2,000 pages there are things that none of

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David Dreier: us want to have happen that we don't know about now but we've had reported her a wide range of things that we believe will happen. now, mr. speaker, it's very unfortunate that the debate on health care reform has been cast on those who are in favor of reform an those who are

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David Dreier: we've continued to hear that over and over and over again unfortunately. there is no member of house, democrat or republican, who does not want to e access to quality health insurance and quality health care for our seniors, for our veterans, for our individuals across this

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David Dreier: country. so let's make it very clear, we all want that to happen. we all want to do what we can, mr. speaker, to increase accessibil we all want to increase accessibility. how do we do that? well, i believe very federal reservently that increasing --

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David Dreier: i believe very much that increasing affordability will increase accessibility. if we can make health insurance more affordable, more people in this country will have access to quality healt the substitute that we have offered does just that. it says that the opportunity to have access to the best quality

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David Dreier: product at the lowest possible price is a right that every american should have. they are denied that today by virtue of the fact that they can't buy insurance across state lines. if you look at our goal of trying to bring about meaningful liability reform, doctors today engage in as we all know defensive medicine.

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David Dreier: they recommend a wide range of tests simply because of their fear of being sued. in my state of california, we have a very, very via package that deals with that. if we were to take the cafornia model and apply it here at the federal level, the congressional budget office has estimated that we will save $54

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David Dreier: billion, $54 billion could be saved. and i believe that we need to do everything that we can to allow small businesses to come together so that they can in fact as large enties do get lower insurance rates and, mr. speaker, i believe that we can also ensure that we address the

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David Dreier: conditions so that americans with those pre-existing conditions are not denied access to quality health insurance and health care. we can do that, and that's exactly what our substitute does. and unfortunately, mr. speaker, we have continued to have this characterization that if we don't support this measure, if

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David Dreier: we don't support this measure which takes control of 1/6 of our nation's economy, we are not committed to reform. that is outrageous. we believe that a step-by-step approach is the proper route for us to take. i like very much when our friend from north carolina earlier said we don't need the

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David Dreier: complete overhaul. we need to fine tune this system to ensure that every