House Proceeding 07-30-09 on Jul 30th, 2009 :: 0:51:19 to 0:52:25
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Speech By: Pete Olson

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Pete Olson: suppressed and will be for the rest of his life. he takes eight medications twice daily and must adhere to a strict schedule to control the levels omedication in his system. too little, and he is at risk of rejecting his heart. too much, and the medications trigger kidney failure and disable his immune system,

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Pete Olson: making him more vulnerable to every germ around. i tell joshua's story, because quite frankly because if the health care plans being promoted by my democratic colleagues were to become law, i'm not confident he would be here today. his mother is deeply concerned that with government-run health

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Pete Olson: care, she might not have had the choice to deliver her baby and have access to the life-savin medical procedures needed to keep him healthy alive. in a massive government-run bureaucracy, americans may not have the freedom to make the individual decision s that brittany craft made to bring

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Pete Olson: little joshua into this world. she was in a position to not accept the word of a doctor and could search across the nation for a bretter chance at life for her unborn son. while some maintain that they can stay on their private plans, they are not considering the