[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 66 (Wednesday, May 12, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H2820]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                PROVIDING HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS

  (Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island. Mr. Speaker, so much is in the news 
these days, it is hard for us to keep sight of any one thing; but as a 
great Nation, we ought to be able to do more than one thing at one 
time. One of the things we ought to be doing is taking care of our 
people in this country when it comes to delivering to them health care 
insurance.
  We talk every day about how there are 44 million Americans who are 
uninsured, but what are we actually doing about it?
  I often hear from my constituents who say to me, Congressman, if you 
had to worry about your health insurance the way we have to worry about 
our health insurance every single day of the week, if you had to worry 
about your child the way we have to worry about our children, you would 
have health insurance for all Americans tomorrow.
  Yet, we have Members of Congress who are coming here on the floor and 
saying that they are for health insurance. They say they are not for 
government insurance, no, no, they are against that, and yet name me 
one Member of Congress that does not sign up for the government-paid 
program in this Congress.
  That is the hypocrisy we see in this Congress, not a Congress that is 
actually interested in the people's health care, but only their own.

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