dr. gingrey, and i will yield back to you for our further discussion. mr. gingrey: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman for his contribution and for being with us this evening. i've realized there are conflicting things going on on capitol hill this evening, very important things, but i really appreciate dr. broun being with us and i know that we have also been joined by another member of the doctors caucus, that's our good friend and new member, freshman member, from the great, great state of new york, where my daughter and seasonal reside and -- son-in-law reside and ms. buerkle is a registered nurse by profession and certainly knows of what she speaks in regard to health care, representing the angels of mercy, if will you, and it gives me great pleasure to yield time to ann marie buerkle. she is concerned, mr. speaker, about the health insurance industry and the complexity of such and maybe even wants to discuss some ways that we can change and improve certainly -- improve, certainly improvement is called for and it doesn't have to be within a 2,400-page bill, as dr. b

dr. gingrey. all of us in the doctors' caucus, there are people who have treated patients and we know full well the value of quality health care. and we also know what happens when bureaucracy gets between the patient and the doctor. and you find yourself spending as much time worried about paperwork and forms and what the government is going to do and sometimes you are dealing with your patient. that's not good health care and that certainly isn't good health care reform. all of us who are health care professionals know that the treatment should not be more harmful than the illness itself. and what happens with the health care bill that was passed, when you look at some of the parts of this and realize what it does to the patient, to taxes, to employers, to hospitals, to community health centers, to the cost of drugs, you have to conclude that we did not fix the problem, we financed the problem and it is growing and growing. and that's not the right direction. let me give you a couple of examples

dr. gingrey a member they have subcommittee. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. gingrey: i thank the gentleman for yielding. at least some members of the body can remember ads back years ago touting the benefits of carter's little liver pills, probably all the members can remember because it was just a year ago andy griffith touting the new health care reform bill and those of us who are on medicare remember getting those glossy mail outs, very expensive, slick-looking ads, really touting the benefits that obamacare has brought to medicare. even though the new bill, the new entitlement creation, took something like $550 billion out of medicare, yet the -- they had the audacity to send these ads out, these flyers saying they'd improved medicare osm because macare improves medicare. go figure. that's a concern here. that's why i'm standing in strong support of chairman pitts' bill h.r. 1217. the prevention and public health fund is established under patient protection affordable care act, opaw macare, for prevention, wellness and public health activities author