House Proceeding 06-11-09 on Jun 11th, 2009 :: 2:31:55 to 2:32:55
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Charles W. Dent: efficiency there for equality. we can do those things. imagine what could happen. imagine the possibilities and let's not throw it out and say it's too difficult. with that i yield back to my colleague, congressman dent. mr. dent: j think we want to say a few things i think in our health care system. we certainly want our system to be focused on prevention not maintenance.

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Speech By: Charles W. Dent

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Charles W. Dent: we want cures. not treatments. the system should be about doctors not lawyers. we want patients to be treated like human beings. they want to be treated like people. not some number. something abstract. we want to be tated like a human being. because at the end of the day we

2:32:25 to 2:32:46( Edit History Discussion )

Charles W. Dent: all want our loved ones to be cared for. we don't want them to wait. we don't want to see a mother like mine who is 80 be told she's contributed herhole life relatively healthy, we don't want to tell her we are sorry we are going to discard you because you have reached a certain age. that's what we are concerned about. we are going to try to work i think in a bipartisan manne try to work

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Charles W. Dent: embraces a lot of ideas that we can all share. short of of a government takeover of our system, i think we can do that. we have the compass to the do it. the american people expect it of us.