Productive Health Care Forum

Floor Speech

Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, on Monday night, I held a health care forum in my district to hear the thoughts and concerns of my constituents as we continue this critical debate on health care reform. There were strong feelings on all sides of the issue, but the important thing is we were able to come together and have a productive forum on the important factors that are central to reforming health care so that we can reduce costs, increase access, expand choice, and strengthen--yes, strengthen--Medicare.

I want to thank Temple Ner Tamid for hosting the forum; Mitch Fox for moderating with such grace; our panelists, Tom McCoy and Max Richtman; and especially the approximately 500 people who cared enough to come together and get involved in this discussion.

As the health care debate continues over the coming weeks, I look forward to sharing with my colleagues in the House on both sides of the aisle the valuable thoughts and ideas that were discussed at Monday's forum.

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