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Rep. Tom Petri has released the statement below following House passage of health care reform:
"Today's passage of the health care bill makes this a very bad day for our country. The plan passed today will break the bank. It is filled with budget gimmickry to hide its true cost. It does very little to make the fundamental changes needed to reform the delivery of care.
"We need the right reforms to eliminate waste throughout the system and reward high quality low-cost care. We should be choosing approaches which give consumers incentives to use their health care dollars wisely. Instead, we are going in the opposite direction by turning decisions over to government bureaucrats.
"Instead of getting everybody into the old, dysfunctional system and then figuring out how to pay for it, we should emphasize advances in efficiency so that more people will be able to afford their health care, and the government will be better able to take care of the rest. Unfortunately, the majority in Congress has committed us to a path which will make the right reforms much harder to achieve."
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