[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 19 (Wednesday, February 15, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H299]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SAY NO TO HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, when President Bush served as governor of 
Texas, that State had more uninsured people than any other State in the 
union, and his system continues until today: Texas still has more 
uninsured people percentage-wise as well as numerically.
  Today, President Bush visited Ohio to try to sell his latest health 
care scheme. The reality is his health savings accounts are simply tax 
shelters for the healthy and wealthy, leaving more Americans worse off. 
Indeed, the numbers of the uninsured in Ohio have grown dramatically 
during his administration. More than one out of four people under the 
age of 65 went without health insurance, and almost half of Ohio's 
households with children are uninsured, while 76 percent of the 
uninsured are members of working families.
  The President's travel stop today reminds me of his Social Security 
drive to privatize that a year ago. The American people said no. Our 
working families deserve better and should not buy this latest ploy for 
health savings accounts either that are going to leave most Americans 
in the drink.

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