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rep. duncan responds to impending passage of pelosi health bill
published: November 09 2009 11:35 AM
updated:: November 10 2009 11:09 PM
WASHINGTON – Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-Tenn.) issued the following statement Saturday in response to the impending passage of Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill:
“I am voting against this bill for many reasons, but primarily because it is both unconstitutional and unaffordable.
Our health care system is in need of major reform, but we need to go more in the direction of free enterprise, free market principles.
When our federal government is already $12 trillion in debt and running deficits of over $1 trillion each year for the foreseeable future, we certainly do not need another big government boondoggle.
If the federal government gets even more into health care, in a few years it will lead to shortages, rationing, all sorts of inefficiencies and waste, and worst of all, a declining quality of medical care.
The really sad thing is that we had almost no major problems in health care until the federal government got heavily involved in the mid 1960’s. Before then, medical care was cheap and accessible and doctors even commonly made house calls. We took what was a very minor problem for a few people and turned it into a major problem for almost everyone.”