[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 30, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H991]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. MILLENDER-McDONALD asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. MILLENDER-McDONALD. Madam Speaker, I rise today to plead for 
health care reform. In recent weeks, I have received more than 150 
letters from my constituents asking for health care reform. No one has 
written expressing satisfaction over the current health care system. 
Most seniors feel that their medicine coverage is still costing too 
much. Others cite fear and losing access to choice of health insurance 
plans or medicines.
  I am in favor of sweeping reforms to the system rather than the 
piecemeal and ``quick-fix'' methods of the past.
  In Dallas, the poor, elderly and disabled are hurting the most when 
it comes to health care. Texas has the largest number of uninsured in 
the Nation, and our emergency rooms are bursting.
  Madam Speaker, it is time for a new strategy. Let's consider 
comprehensive health care reform that will improve our health care 
system and make a real difference for Dallas and for America's 
citizens.

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