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Health Care

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 27, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)

Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, all of the American people need health care now. Reform must come, and it's coming to the floor very soon.

For those who are pleased with their health care insurance, they can keep it. Their costs might even go down with reform. What we want to do is rescue the insurance from under antitrust-ignoring insurance companies. We all pay insurance, and we like insurance, but no one wants to be abused by any system, and we have seen that happen.

The hospitals are attempting to perform all of this uncompensated care. With this reform, it will be different. I suppose that correcting preexisting conditions and getting sick will cause some to lose health care support. We must make this change.

You know, I keep hearing what the Republicans are saying, but Mr. Speaker, but that's not what the plan says.


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