[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 156 (Tuesday, October 16, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H11554]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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      THE FIFTH DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT SUPPORTS THE SCHIP PROGRAM

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Madam Speaker, why is it that we have so 
many Republicans here in the House, a veto-proof majority in the 
Senate, a poll that came out showing that Republicans across this 
country support expansion of the SCHIP bill by a 2 to 1 margin. Why is 
that? Because the expansion of the SCHIP bill is not just morally 
responsible. It is fiscally responsible. We have to stop pretending 
that these kids that don't have health care insurance don't have health 
care. They do. But they get it in the least humane and most expensive 
way. We have a system of universal health care in this country. It just 
doesn't get care to these kids until they are so sick and so crippled 
by their illness that they show up at an emergency room and get the 
worst care and most expensive care that you can get in this system
  I come from a morally responsible district, but I also come from a 
fiscally responsible district, Madam Speaker, and that is why they 
support expansion of the SCHIP program.

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