House Proceeding 10-26-09 on Oct 26th, 2009 :: 2:16:20 to 2:19:45
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2:16:06 to 2:16:26( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: billion? there's other mund we could find in other places. why not find that money and help the doctors rather than say we can't do it? so here we're going to ask our nation's doctors to be our partners with us as we go through this. they're going to have to live with whatever we pass for the next two or three generationof physicians and we won't do those two simple things that are so

2:16:20 to 2:19:45( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Steve King

2:16:27 to 2:16:47( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: important to the nation's physicians, liability reform and payment reform in medicare. seems so simple. i just have to ask, why is that too much trouble? if all the king's horses and men working on this legislation. i yield back to my friendy iowa. mr. king: reclaing as i listen to my friend from texas talk, it

2:16:48 to 2:17:10( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: occurs to me, i had one of those , last weekend i sat down and did an odd thing, i read through president obama's campaign speeches as senator obama that went through the summer of 2008 right on up to the election, november 4 of last year. soaring rhetoric. it was moving, i didn't quite have a tingle go up my leg but i

2:17:11 to 2:17:31( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: was moved by the language and i had to stop someti mentally pinch myself to ask, what's happened now compared to what i heard then? one of thehings that really stands out is barack obama's pledgeo unconditionaly stit down with the iranian, ahmadinejad -- sit down with the

2:17:32 to 2:17:53( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: iranian, ahmadinejad. you know, dialogue is process, -- progress, so he made that pledge during his campaign, he's not backed off of that pledge, but unconditionaly sit down with ahmadinejad but yet when i asked the question, is anybody sitting down with president obama that has an r behind their name a talking health care? is there anybody in the house of representatives out of 178

2:17:54 to 2:18:14( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: republicans that is negotiations with president obama, having a discussion on health care? is there anybody really reaching across the aisle from over there to look for some republican components of solutions? states senate with an r behind their name that's invited to the white house or sitting down with harry reid? or is it all nancy pelosi's office, harry reid's office and

2:18:15 to 2:18:36( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: the oval office, all democrats, all clustered together? they do have the votes, you know. but this was the president that was going to bring in a new era of bipartisanship, but when he found out that he didn't need republican votes, he didn't need republican philosophy either and we end up with this lurch to the left that comes at us over and

2:18:37 to 2:18:57( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: over again out of this administration. the gentleman spoke about liability reform and the proposal, $54 billion in savings. here's some numbers that stand out to me. conservative. and i say that, the lowest numbers that i have seen as the percentage of the overall health care costs that are attributable to malpractice premiums, the

2:18:58 to 2:19:18( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: litigation and defensive medicine that's a component of this, the lowest number i've seen is 5.5% of the overall health insurance underwriters place that at.5%. that $203 billion a year. you won't save it all but that's how big the pot, i think, likely is. other numbers go on up to

2:19:19 to 2:19:42( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: and then talk to your orthopedic surgeons and they'll take you up to 35% because they are faced with it and the obgny's, the highest level of -- and we're losing places for women to have babies. the access to health care has been diminished because of the liability but it's in the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars driven by the trial

2:19:43 to 2:19:45( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: lawyers and we can't find