Senate Proceeding on Oct 8th, 2009 :: 11:01:00 to 11:13:55
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Richard Burr: and i suspect the courts are going to uphold the citizens of this country rather than the power center. with that, i'd yield the floor. i yield back to my c from north carolina. mr. burr: i tha coburn for let m just say the great is

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Speech By: Richard Burr

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Richard Burr: this is a member of the united states senate that typically on monday morning delivers babies, and all weekend long. before he comes back to washington, he practices medicine. this institution looked at

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Richard Burr: he did for what you do, cost you $200,000 a year to keep your practice open, your license in place, to buy your liabi insurance. they said that's illegal under senate so tom coburn is a unique individual.

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Richard Burr: he sees women who are pregnant. he delivers babies, but he doesn't take any payment for it. he keeps his license up to date. to some degree, it's charity care, because he believes it's the right thing to do. more

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Richard Burr: that what we do here affects what our children and our grandchildren get in inheritance from us. not financial inheritance. in opportuni why are we passionate about the debt? why are we passionate about trampling on the constitution? because every time we do

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Richard Burr: take an opportunity away from the next we reduce their ability to be successful whatever their definition is. now, tom covered it very we're somewhat passionate about our criticism towards the bills that passed out of the "help" committee and the finance committee soon and the three

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Richard Burr: bills on the house. why? because we introduced our bill first. we laid our cards on the table. we offered to work in a bipartisan way with anybody, and we had no takers. i believe when you lay there and you come up with a successful plan, you have every right to be critical. i do question the ones that

11:03:20 to 11:03:41( Edit History Discussion )

Richard Burr: don't offer an alternative. but we've offered and that solution was based on three fundamental principles. one, it had to cover everybody. and the way our bill is receives the same financial stipend, regardless of whether they work or whether they don't,

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Richard Burr: regardless of where they live. we treat everybody the same. savings, then you have to make direct investments in prevention wellness and chronic disease management. the patients choice act makes direct investments in prevention, wellness, and chronic disease management.

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Richard Burr: and, sustainable into the future? probably should have started with this one versus saved it for last. why in the world would we create a health care system if it's not sustainable? if it's not financially

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Richard Burr: sustainable, why would we even consider that congress of the united states? if it didn't pass the test of time, why would i worthy of debate?

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Richard Burr: outside of america to continue to finance our urge to spend, then i've got to tell you, we're not goi either that or you're going to have to tax the american people to the going to want to be successful, they're not going to want to

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Richard Burr: work overtime, tpho ert going to want to -- they're not goi want to switch jobs because the benefit to them of being successful is to be punished taxes. thisill is fille with new fees, new taxes. true reform,

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Richard Burr: expands coverage would pay itself. think about if care, would the reforms through savings not pay for the expansion? shouldn't this be a net sum game? we've left out of the bill shopping across state lines for insurance. it saves money.

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Richard Burr: the american people are sitting there, why aren't you doing this? tort reform saves money. the american people are sitting there, why this? well, let me end on one tt i think the american people are really plugged into. congress, which plan are you putting yourself under?

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Richard Burr: do you design ts plan for everybody in america; is it the plan that you're going to h and you know what? in the finance committee, in the "help" committee, in the house committees, there have bee amendments that said congress has to take the plan that they create for the american that government option, that's what congress has to be under. it has been rejected every time

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Richard Burr: it's been but you see, dr. coburn and i took a different approach, because in the patients' choe act, wead to set what the basic minimum plan was going to be. the federal employee health benefit program. we didn't put them into the

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Richard Burr: fehbp pla be equivalent to what members of congress have. how could w people on a plan we create to have less than what we the american people expect us to look after them. they don't expect us to give

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Richard Burr: them less than what we have. well, it was rejected every that that congress to t but i think it tells you a lot about the way tom coburn and i approached the bill we worked on, because we never thought about taking us and putting us to their plan. we talk -- we thought about

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Richard Burr: taking them and raising them to our plan. there's a big difference in that. there is a big difference in looking at the american people and saying you should be here, not the american people saying you should be where we we want people to be successful in this country.

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Richard Burr: tom said this is not a bipartisan bill. he's but i'll end with this tonight. this is also not a reform if you want to talk about expanding coverage, it does an

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Richard Burr: equal job to what the coburn-burr bill does. if you want to judge it based upon reform, it accomplishes no i encourage those that aren't satisfied with the options that have been presented in the house or the senate or that will be debated.

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Richard Burr: go on tom's web site, go on my web site. google patient's choice act. read the bill. it's only 200-something pages. it's not 1 thousand. the truth is if we have debate -- we'll have one at some point -- about health care reform, i can suggest to the american people one word that would drastically reform health care that could

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Richard Burr: 1,000 pages of a house or senate bill. it's called portability. it's individual employee to take their insurance from one employer to the other, not to be construed in any way because they've got a preexisting condition. but also to recognize the fact that when you do portability, you change drastically the way

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Richard Burr: insurers look at covered i think the erican people would be shocked to know that the average person is under a health care plan for an average of four and a half years right now. ask yourself, if you're insurer and you're going to invest in somebody's changes and you're only going to have t how mu are you willing to invest? the likelihood is it's very

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Richard Burr: little. because by the time they lose weight, by the time they quit smoking, you haven't reaped the benefits of that and all of a sudden you create portability, that means that a -year-old covered by an insurance company, that insurance company has an opportunity to keep them until they're 40 years.

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Richard Burr: how much are you going to invest as an insurer in that life if u're going to have him for 40 ye you're going to invest a heck of a lot because you want to keep him as well as long as you possibly can. you want to make sure that you're going to reimburse doctors to do the education. you're going to make sure keep him out of the hospital. you're going to make sure that if they go in the hospital, you get them the treatment they need

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Richard Burr: to get out as can. you're not prescription that a doctor wrote for them. you're not going to que treatment that because all of a sudden the doctor is a partner to the insurance versus just a cost to the insurance. you see, tru reform has to change health care across the board t. has to change the

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Richard Burr: relationship between patients and insurers, between doctors and insurers, between hospitals and ask yourself does the baucus plan accomplish any of it? the simple answer is no, it doesn't. that's why it costs $82 billion. and that's why -- $829 billion. that's why to pay for it you

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Richard Burr: don't get it through savings. you get it through taxing and fees. you achieve that cost by cutting medicare and knocking seniors off of the health care plan that they prefe you get tre by increasing the income limitations on medicaid and making states actually pay

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Richard Burr: for the expansion of 11 million americans that are going to be covered under the most inefficient health care system in the where only 60% of the h care professionals will even see the medicaid beneficiaries because the reimbursements are so low. but we're going to grow that population by we're doing an injustice to

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Richard Burr: these people to put them in a plan where only 60% of the health care professionals will see them. they will not get the education they need for chronic disease management. they won't make t changes because medicaid does not pay for prevention, wellness or chronic disease management. nor does medicare. nor does the v.a.

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Richard Burr: nor does indian health. show me a government plan paid for prevention, wellness, and chronic disease management, and i'll quit coming to the floor and talking about the lack of reform here. the truth is the baucus plan tries to replicate what the federal government's got, and it doesn't have prevention,

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Richard Burr: wellness and chronic disease management today. it won't have it tomorrow. and it won't have it next year. mr. president, i thank you your patience. i will assure colleagues that dr. coburn and i will as we get ready for this debate,

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Richard Burr: as we have this debate, and probably after this debate over, depending upon the outcome of it. but let me make it perfectly clr, if any member in this debate is looking to try to achieve a bipartisan solution to health care, you can sign t

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Richard Burr: coburn and richard burr up today to sit at forget about who's the author of legislation, to talk about real solutions to real problems that deal with health care. i'm committed to do it. but i'm not committed to roll over and just accept another expansion of the federal