[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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           HOUSE BILL GUARANTEES HEALTH SECURITY FOR SENIORS

  (Ms. PELOSI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks and include extraneous 
material.)
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, every time I call home to my mother, at the 
end of the conversation she says:

       Take care of your health. As you grow older you learn that 
     if you do not have your health, you do not have anything.

  That statement I am sure many of us hear from our parents, older 
parents, more and more these days. And that means that health care 
reform is not a luxury, but a necessity for our senior citizens, and, 
indeed, for all Americans.
  That is why I was so pleased to see that the AARP came out so 
strongly for the House health care reform bill. They did so because the 
bill includes new unlimited drug benefits for seniors in the Medicare 
Program, which means seniors will no longer have to tighten their belts 
to buy their medicine. It includes new preventive health benefits for 
seniors and new benefits for mammograms for women over 65 years of age, 
features that could save millions of elderly lives. And, for the very 
first time, long-term care would be available for the many seniors who 
need it the most. In addition to that, in an overall way, it guarantees 
health care that may never be taken away, health care that is always 
there for all Americans, including you, mom, our seniors.

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