[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 25 (Thursday, February 25, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H836-H837]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, the people I represent in 
Connecticut, those who buy their health

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insurance on the individual market, are bearing the burden of a 20 
percent rate hike in a recession.
  Who's getting this 20 percent? It's not the patients, it's not my 
doctors, it's not my hospitals.
  This fact screams for the need for national health insurance reform, 
reform that drives down health care costs for everyone, and asking 
those who make the biggest bucks off the system to take a little bit 
less.
  Today President Obama is going to convene Members of both parties in 
a televised forum to sit down and try to fix our health insurance mess. 
And I'm hopeful that our Republican friends will finally bring some 
ideas that will change this status quo for individuals in my district, 
seniors and small businesses across the Nation. Instead of empowering 
these insurance industry rate increases, they should work with us to 
stop them.
  I'm not naive. This may not happen today. But I'll tell you this: 
people in Connecticut will be watching.

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