House Proceeding 11-07-09 on Nov 7th, 2009 :: 6:54:40 to 6:57:55
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6:54:35 to 6:54:55( Edit History Discussion )

Joe Barton: the speaker yields time? >> at this time i yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from texas, the ranking member of the energy and c barton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. barton: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks.

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Speech By: Joe Barton

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Joe Barton: the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. asked the chairman of the education and labor committee -- what we have here is a failure to communicate or perhaps a difference in philosophy. the democrats have decided that the bottom line is coverage. by golly, coverage no matter what. whether you want to be covered

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Joe Barton: or not, you're going to be. we're going to have an employer mandate. we're going to have an employee mandate, an individual mandate. we're going to have a premium mandate. we're going to have how you cover the insurance, a comparativ dictate the practice of medicine. we're going to raise medicaid

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Joe Barton: automatically enroll eve in this country whether they want to be or not. we are going to tell every young american who's decided that they don't want to pa those premiums, they want to save up to get married or to buy a home, by golly, they're going to have to take insurance and they're going to pay three to four times what they would under the current system

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Joe Barton: because there's only a 2:1 ratio. so they are going to get their coverage at a cost of $1.2 trillion. now, we have a different philosophy. we think you need to control costs, but we also agree that you have to provide access to

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Joe Barton: the priva insurance market if you can't get it today and you want it. congressman miller talked about the 40 million to 50 million americans uninsured and he's right. but of those 40 million to 50 million, 15 million to 20 million are in this country ille

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Joe Barton: young americans who don't want insurance. when you really boil it down, there are five million to 10 million americans who have a provided and they can't afford it. our plan covers them. it gives them the opportunity. it doesn't give them the money. but it fwiffs them the opportunity.

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Joe Barton: -- but it gives them the opportunity. so we have a delirches in philosophy. we don't believe in mandates -- so we have a difference in philosophy. we don't believe in mandates but we believe in individual opportunity we believe in individual -- we believe in lower taxes and we believe in a plan that will lower

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Joe Barton: at an average of $5,000 per person per year for the next 10 years. that's what c.b.o. says. that's not that's the c.b.o. so there is a choice. bigger government, more mandates, more control, less freedom, lower costs, more opportunity, more freedom, more choice.