[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 11, 1994]
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   CALLING FOR GUARANTEED HEALTH INSURANCE FOR EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, on any given day 37 million Americans are 
without health insurance. In my district, the First Congressional 
District of Michigan, there are 64,000 people who are under the age of 
65 who are uninsured. Of those uninsured, 14,000 are children. Over 80 
percent of the uninsured in my district are working but do not receive 
health benefits through their job.
  Constituents contact me frequently about their need for health care 
reform and guaranteed private health insurance.
  For example, a woman from the Traverse City area called me to say 
that her company just cancelled her health insurance. This very woman 
was 8\1/2\ months pregnant, and was left with nowhere to turn.
  Mr. Speaker, this woman and even those with health insurance are why 
we need health care reform. We need health care reform because when 
this woman had her child, do you know who paid? All of us, through 
increased insurance premiums, through increased out-of-pocket expenses, 
through increased State taxes, through increased Federal taxes. This 
bears out the fact that health care reform is for everyone. We must get 
this under control.
  Mr. Speaker, I hope that the Congress will help every American to 
obtain and retain health insurance for themselves and their children.

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