[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 1994)]
[House]
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                 HEALTH CARE REFORM: A WORKER'S MANDATE

  (Mr. DERRICK asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DERRICK. Mr. Speaker, 85 percent of uninsured Americans are 
employed, hard-working men and women and their families. Most of these 
people earn between $15,000 and $25,000 a year. When the average family 
insurance policy costs about $5,200, you can see why health insurance 
eludes them.
  Meanwhile, Medicare covers the very poor. That is why the Gephardt 
health care reform bill focuses on employed middle-income Americans. 
They lose the most under the present system.
  Working Americans want and need health care coverage they can never 
lose. That is why the following worker's organizations support the 
Guaranteed Health Insurance Act: The Service Employees International 
Union, the National Association of Letter Carriers, the American 
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Communications 
Workers of America, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the 
United Steelworkers of America, the United Auto Workers, and the 
Amalgamated Transit Union.
  Together, these organizations represent over 5 million American 
workers. It is a worker's mandate Congress should not ignore.

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