[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 10, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1225]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, just as we are about to reach the 
mountaintop of health care reform, just a few feet away, opponents of 
health care reform say, Start over. Well, you know, there are people in 
this country who do have to start over. The 1,800 people or 17 a day, 
700,000 a year, who go into bankruptcy because of health care costs, 
they have to start over. They have to start rebuilding their lives all 
over again. And those 14,000 people every day who lose their health 
insurance, they have to start over as well. They have to start the 
search to find out how they can protect their family with affordable 
health insurance.
  The only people who really get to start over are the insurance 
companies who, when people get very sick, say, We are going to start 
over with another customer because you are too expensive to care for.
  No, we can't start over because, if we start over, life will be over 
for too many Americans.

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