[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 32 (Tuesday, February 24, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H2609]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  MOVING FROM BANK CARE TO HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Fifty million Americans without any health insurance, 
another 50 million underinsured. There has never been a more 
significant moment where this country has the opportunity to turn 
crisis into opportunity by making it possible for all Americans for the 
first time to have a plan of national health care, a universal, single-
payer, not-for-profit health care system, where all $2.2 trillion that 
is spent for health care will be spent for health care for people and 
not for profit for insurance companies. Insurance companies make money 
not providing health care.
  With so many Americans without health care today, it is urgent that 
we recognize the value of H.R. 676 to provide Americans with the 
coverage they need, plus we stop this system which is excluding people 
from being able to get the care they need because of the cost of 
premiums and copays.
  This is a moment that we need to seize. H.R. 676, universal, single-
payer, not-for-profit health care. Let's move from bank care to health 
care.

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